Comportment

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Comportment \Com*port"ment\, n. [F. comportement.]
     Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
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           A graceful comportment of their bodies.  --Cowley.
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           Her serious and devout comportment.      --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  comportment
       n : dignified manner or conduct [syn: {bearing}, {presence}, {mien}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, ways