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MAN. A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against man, some are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately against the subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the life of man come under the general name of homicide, which in our law signifies the killing of a man by a man." Id. book 1, c. 8, s. 2.
     2. In a more confined sense, man means a person of the male sex; and sometimes it signifies a male of the human species above the age of puberty. Vide Rape. It was considered in the civil or Roman law, that although man and person are synonymous in grammar, they had a different acceptation in law; all persons were men, but all men, for example, slaves, were not persons, but things. Vide Barr. on the Stat. 216, note.



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AND HOLD THEIR MANHOODS CHEAP WHILES ANY SPEAKS OF THOSE THAT DID THEIR PM THIS NIGHT BEFORE AND FOUGHT WITH US UPON SAINT CRISPIN'S DAY.
The Life of King Henry the Fifth--first draft by Shakespeare, William / PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
For if he had not turned his back on Falstaff and everything Falstaff represents, he could never have become, as Henry V, the king who leads his men into a bloody battle at Agincourt by telling them that "gentlemen in England now abed/Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here/And hold their manhoods cheap.
Heroism in a politically correct age by Podhoretz, Norman / National Review
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