maness
See also: Maness
English
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editmaness (plural not attested)
- (obsolete, nonce word) female equivalent of man; woman.
- 1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic and Other Poems, p. 130 (Google Books view):
- Taught the Ædenic mysteries of man
- And maness; how in union infinite,
- 1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic and Other Poems, p. 130 (Google Books view):