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comportment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun comportment has 1 sense
- comportment(n = noun.attribute) bearing, mien, presence - dignified manner or conduct; Array is a kind of manner, personal manner
has particulars: dignity, gravitas, lordliness
Derived forms verb comport2, verb comport1
CIDE DICTIONARY
comportment, n. [F. comportement.].
Manner of acting; behavior; bearing. [1913 Webster]
"A graceful comportment of their bodies."
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"Her serious and devout comportment."
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THESAURUS
comportment
action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, carriage, conduct, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, folkway, gestures, goings-on, guise, maintien, manner, manners, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, observable behavior, pattern, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceeding, set, social science, style, tactics, tone, way, way of life, waysROGET THESAURUS
comportment
Conduct
N conduct, behavior, deportment, comportment, carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance, dealing, transaction, business, tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity, generalship, statesmanship, seamanship, strategy, strategics, plan, management, husbandry, housekeeping, housewifery, stewardship, menage, regime, economy, economics, political economy, government, execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record, course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding, role, process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating, method, path, conducting, strategical, businesslike, practical, executive.
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