manful

From Middle English manful, manfull, equivalent to man +‎ -ful.

manful (comparative manfuller, superlative manfullest)

1. Showing the characteristics considered typical of a man; macho or manly.
   • 1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 245:

     If Cousin wasn’t trying so hard to be manful, he’d be crying.

2. (by extension) Courageous; noble; high-minded.

• mainful

• man flu, man-flu

• man-ful, monful, manffull, manfull

From man (“man, person”) +‎ -ful.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanful/

manful

1. Noble, brave, strong, daring, determined; displaying virtues seen as manly.

• manfully
• monfulnesse

• English: manful
• Scots: manfull (obsolete)

• “manful, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 August 2018.

• mānfull

By surface analysis, mān (“crime, sin”) +‎ -ful

mānful

1. wicked, evil, dire
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Þā sē hālga martyr mid þām Hālgan Gāst āfylled smearcode mid mūþe and tō þām mānfullan cwæþ "Ūs ġedafenaþ tō offriġenne þām undēadlīċum gode."

     Then the holy martyr, filled with the Holy Spirit, smiled with his mouth and to the evil man said "It benefits us to sacrifice to the undying God."