1845, Orestes Augustus Brownson, Charles Elwood, p. 161:
Every man is a man if he chooses to be, and has in himself all that he needs in order to be a man in the full significance of the term; and therefore no one has any occasion to borrow a part of his manship from his brother.
1871, John William De Forest, Overland: A Novel, p. 7:
This old lady (old in his young eyes) was always at him about his manship, as if it were a crime and disgrace.
1902, Lebbeus Harding Rogers, The Kite Trust (a Romance of Wealth), p. 324:
He certainly had nothing to do with the choosing of his manship, any more than his sister had of her womanhood.
1932, Frank Luther Mott, John Towner Frederick, The Midland, p. 59:
He had a tiny fear of the turtle that did not acknowledge his manship, advancing upon it, full of a funny emotion of not knowing what he intended to do.
2003, Leon Dash, When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing, p. 200:
They were middle-class and, therefore, "had a better attitude towards girls because boys [in Washington Highlands] like beating girls to show their manship.
2007, Kevin P. Novak, Adam Versus Adam, p. 69:
The manship of Jesus was hid from the eyes of men as completely as the Godship.