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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

... up the ladder, still holding the crucifix, for it was the only thing in the form of a weapon I possessed, and the manner in which I gripped it improvised it into a hilted dagger, although I remember keeping it more for evidence against Meeker than for any other purpose. If the sly rascal was still making a fool of Riggs, or denied that he had been below, I felt that his crucifix would be proof ...

— The Devil's Admiral • Frederick Ferdinand Moore

... had an immense and immediate popularity, and until well into the nineteenth century it was reproduced and sold throughout Europe. As we read it, we cannot but wonder what manner of man it really was who attracted to himself such age-long hatred and fear, and held the interest of the centuries. In many respects, doubtless, his story was like that of Paracelsus, in whom the world has recognised the struggle of much good with almost inevitable ...

— Among Famous Books • John Kelman

... and there found Ganguernet stretched upon a sofa. To the reiterated questions that were put him as to the cause of the clamor, he answered not a word; but taking the pale-faced young man by the hand in a very solemn manner, and leading him up to the fine lady, gravely said to her: 'I have the honor, Madam, of presenting to you the most poetic genius of the company in a cotton night-cap.' We all burst into a shout of laughter, but the lady ...

— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 - Volume 23, Number 1 • Various

... look after you coming up to town, and because one of you was careless enough to lose her jewels, I—I am to be talked about all over London as the man who took them!" This was not spoken with much courtesy to the ladies present. Lord George had dropped that customary chivalry of manner which, in ordinary life, makes it to be quite out of the question that a man shall be uncivil to a woman. He had escaped from conventional usage into rough, truthful speech, under stress from the extremity of the hardship to which he had been subjected. And the women understood ...

— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope

... malignant sophist; nor is the final issue in the later poem even for a moment in doubt—a serious defect from an artistic point of view. Jortin holds its peculiar excellence to be 'artful sophistry, false reasoning, set off in the most specious manner, and refuted by the Son of God with strong unaffected eloquence'; merits for which Milton needed no original of any kind, as his own lofty religious sentiments, his argumentative talents and long experience of political pamphleteering, stood him in good stead. Most of us must have wondered ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

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