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Manner   /mˈænər/   Listen
noun
Manner  n.  
1.
Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. "The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land." "The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful, manner."
2.
Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style. Specifically:
(a)
Customary method of acting; habit. "Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them." "Air and manner are more expressive than words."
(b)
pl. Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address; as, mind your manners!. "Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices."
(c)
The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
3.
Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already. "The bread is in a manner common."
4.
Sort; kind; style; in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds; as, all manners of people came to the rally. "And they being afraid wondered, saying to one another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and the water, and they obey him." "Ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs." "I bid thee say, What manner of man art thou?" Note: In old usage, of was often omitted after manner, when employed in this sense. "A manner Latin corrupt was her speech."
By any manner of means, in any way possible; by any sort of means.
To be taken in the manner or To be taken with the manner. To be taken in the very act. (Obs.) See Mainor.
To make one's manners, to make a bow or courtesy; to offer salutation.
Manners bit, a portion left in a dish for the sake of good manners.
Synonyms: Method; mode; custom; habit; fashion; air; look; mien; aspect; appearance. See Method.





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"Manner" Quotes from Famous Books



... In manner the lawyer was rather severe and austere. He was a good deal of an aristocrat. While he did not seek to repel people, he had little of the knack of drawing people to him ...
— The Grammar School Boys Snowbound - or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports • H. Irving Hancock
... of the book is rather that of talk than of writing. It has the dash, the quick turn, and the vivacity of a good improvisation at the dinner-table; and a quotation will illustrate not so much Sir Charles's literary gift as the manner of his talk: ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... particular the familiar pictorial caricature of "Uncle Sam." He need not bear any outward resemblances to such stage types as that presented in "The Man From Home." He need not even suggest, by peculiarities of speech or manner, that he has escaped from the pages of those novels of international observation in which Mr. James and Mr. Howells long ago attained an unmatched artistry. Our "American Abroad," at the present hour, may be studied without the aid of any literary recollections whatever. There ...
— The American Mind - The E. T. Earl Lectures • Bliss Perry
... eternal and hopeless expectation of the clerk's ideal, an increase of salary. Nevertheless he worked; but he did not know how to make himself appreciated. He had too much self-respect, he claimed. His self-respect consisted in never bowing to his superiors in a low and servile manner, as did, according to him, certain of his colleagues, whom he would not mention. He added that his frankness embarrassed many people, for, like all the rest, he protested against injustice and the favoritism shown to persons entirely foreign to ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... first sketches to the finished picture, yet, by beginning with nature and his own suggestions, he will acquire a genuine and original style, superior to the finest imitation; and it is hard to acquire a master's skill without his manner. ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis


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