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deportment
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synonyms: carriage, comportment ???
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Definition:demeanor; conduct; behavior
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his whole deportment was so obliging, added to very good human understanding, that I really began to tolerate his company. He gained so far upon me, that I ventured to look out of the back window.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
---When, after examining the mother, in whose countenance and deportment she soon found some resemblance of Mr. Darcy,
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
---"[...] everyone observed that your conduct and deportment were not altogether what could be desired."
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Her father, a Colonel of the old school, had been particular about deportment.
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.5 (1939)
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He maintained a hard, careless deportment, indicative of neither joy nor sorrow
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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