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comportment
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Definition:deportment---Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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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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One report from a Flemish painter who was in Rome in 1604 described [Caravaggio's] comportment this way: "After a fortnight's work, he will swagger about for a month or two with his sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or argument, with the result that it is most difficult to get along with him."
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He begged her to do him the honor to take a seat, and stood before her trimming and comporting himself with an eager solicitude, which was chiefly benevolent.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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