Both womanliness and manliness are variants of the Victorian, gender-neutral concept of humanliness, or, more specifically, Christian humanliness.

Suffice it to say that they served as a means of uniting all workers in a work-place at a time when craft unions were split by politics and unable to cope with large-scale industry, that they won recognition from governments in many cases as an emergency measure to head off revolutionary unrest, and that in both Czechoslovakia and Poland they laid claim to a compulsory contribution from employers for welfare purposes.

Even now I behold a sign, A threatening of wrath divine, A watery, wandering star, through whose streaming hair, and the white Unfolding garments of light, That trail behind it afar, The constellations shine!

The large terrestrial and marine reptiles of the Mesozoic were likely mesotherms, which maintained high body temperatures by virtue of their large size and whose metabolism approached that of endotherms.