Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
"In the first place, sir, our theory teaches us to proceed by analogy from the physical to the moral. Are we right there, sir? Now, sir, take a young boy, a young male infant rather, a man-child in short—what sir, I respectfully ask, do you in the first place remark?"
Said the Beaming: “There is no Hall-Sun sitting under our Roof at home to tell true tales concerning the Kindred every day. Yet forsooth from time to time is a word said in our Folk-hall for good or for evil; and who can choose but hearken thereto? And yestereve was a woeful word spoken, and that by a man-child of ten winters.”
1999 — Betty McLellan, Help! I'm Living WIth a Man Boy, Spinifex Press (2006), →ISBN, page 23:
What is a man-child actually like? To understand the man-child phenomenon, it is necessary to look, first, at the attitudes and behaviour of children generally, and then to place one of those children in a man's body, with all the power and privileges that come with being an adult male.
In the end, Brown said he just couldn't stand another day of trying to run a team with two sets of rules — one for 11 players and the other for the man-child superstar.
2005 — Louis Cantor, Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay, University of Illinois Press (2005), →ISBN, page 163:
When together the two were little more than grown-up juveniles, each a man-child concerned only with maximizing newfound fame and fortune through absolute gratification.
2006 — Erik E. Esckilsen, The Outside Groove, Walter Lorraine Books (2006), →ISBN, page 239:
Part of me wanted to disagree with him, but another part wanted to think he was right, to think that Wade — selfish, immature, cocky, man-child Wade — maybe saw something that I'd missed.
2009 — J. M. Kearns, Better Love Next Time: How the Relationship That Didn't Last Can Lead You to the One That Will, John Wiley & Sons (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered pages:
Many of these shows seem not to be about a husband and wife, but a man-child and his mother: the extreme case being Everybody Loves Raymond, where Ray seemed to have two mothers, one of whom he was married to.
2010 — Bill Sheehan, Roman Wolfe 2: Classroom Terror, iUniverse (2010), →ISBN, pages 110-111:
He was, at his roots, a repugnant, irresponsible, immature man-child, devoid of love or concern for Charlie, though he always brought Charlie home from the orphanage on weekends — for religious indoctrination.
2011 — Cheryl Faye, Who Said It Would Be Easy?: A Story of Faith, Strebor Books (2011), →ISBN, page 73:
It was his selfishness that had pushed that beautiful lady out of his life. He had been an immature man-child then, but he couldn't use that excuse anymore.
Thirty years ago, the title character could be an unapologetic drunken playboy, but today, he has to be a man-child who drinks and carouses because his clean-living father died of a heart attack at 44.