manner
Definition of manner:
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part of speech: noun
Mode of action: way of performing anything: method: fashion: peculiar deportment: habit: custom: style of writing or thought: sort: style:- pl. morals: behavior: deportment: respectful deportment.
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part of speech: noun
Form; method; habit; sort or kind; way of performing or doing; peculiar carriage or deportment. Note.- As applied to art, manner has two quite different significations; in the one, it signifies a peculiarity of habit, and implies a kind of reproach against an artist; in the other, it is the artist's peculiar way of choosing, imagining, and representing his subjects, including what are called his style and handling.
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Common misspellings:
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- mannner (5.9%)
- mannar (6.4%)
- anner (0.3%)
- manneer (0.5%)
- mann (0.8%)
- mannor (22.5%)
- manuer (0.3%)
- amnner (1.3%)
- maner (59.6%)
- jmanner (0.8%)
- maaner (0.5%)
- mannsr (0.5%)
- mlanner (0.5%)
Usage examples for manner:
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" It is a strange manner of living," she said, " when a girl is not to choose her own man."
"Jeanne of the Marshes" – E. Phillips Oppenheim -
On the third day I was treated in the same manner
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons" – Jacques Casanova de Seingalt -
He had understood things in this manner all day, without giving them words.
"Gargoyles" – Ben Hecht -
Nobody would have known by his manner that he saw any special change in his patient.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr." – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
