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Comportment

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
comportment

c.1600, from Middle French comportement "bearing, behavior," from comporter (13c.) "to be disposed, arranged, laid out," from Latin comportare (see comport).

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comportment

n. 1 The manner in which one behaves or conducts oneself 2 deportment, bearing

WordNet
comportment

n. dignified manner or conduct [syn: bearing, presence, mien]

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 didn’t.