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Dignified manner or conduct
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comportment
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Word definitions for comportment in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Middle French comportement "bearing, behavior," from comporter (13c.) "to be disposed, arranged, laid out," from Latin comportare (see comport ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The manner in which one behaves or conducts oneself 2 deportment, bearing
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. dignified manner or conduct [syn: bearing , presence , mien ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Comportment \Com*port"ment\, n. [F. comportement.] Manner of acting; behavior; bearing. A graceful comportment of their bodies. --Cowley. Her serious and devout comportment. --Addison.
Usage examples of comportment.
He had them in his brain: for while burning with an ardour for Laetitia, that incited him to frantic excesses of language and comportment, he was aware of shouts of the names of Lady Busshe and Mrs.
Willoughby's comportment while the showers of adulation drenched him might be likened to the composure of Indian Gods undergoing worship, but unlike them he reposed upon no seat of amplitude to preserve him from a betrayal of intoxication.
All right, she saved me from doing something stupid with that Siren woman, but I fully intend to note her comportment in my log.
Her comportment as a mother had always been instructive rather than cherishing.
I hoped the colonel would put the fear of God into those dogfaces by calling them down for crooked gig lines and ungentlemanly public comportment, but he didnt.