comportment

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comportment - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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comportment - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  comportment
      n 1: dignified manner or conduct [syn: bearing, comportment,
           presence, mien]

comportment - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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