Over the centuries, virtuous discarded its manly character in favor of a slightly later meaning: moral purity (although the old sense of "skillful" or "able" survives in the term virtuoso).

The school's primary purpose was "to prepare a boy adequately and thoroughly for College or Business, and to inculcate in him those basic principles and high ideals which tend toward the development of a manly character."

Forbes was of a bluff but kindly nature, diffident as to his own merits, of a straightforward and manly character.

An addition to the 1891 construction was added in 1898 by James Warriner Moulton who attempted to give the addition what he termed greater "strength" and a "more manly character."

Indeed, insincere posturing is said to have interfered, somehow, with the exercise of manly character.

The formation of manly character: a series of lectures to young men.

By doing these things, Clalin increased her manly character so that she would fit in and others wouldn't see past her disguise.

The Dictionary of National Biography described Boddington as "of a humorous, amiable, and manly character".

At the age of 12 he was sent to the Groton School, a boys' preparatory school whose purpose was to "cultivate manly Christian character".

Is it consistent with the proper dignity and the manly character of a nation?