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Deportment definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEPORTMENT, n. Carriage; manner of acting in relation to the duties of life; behavior; demeanor ; conduct; management.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people [syn: demeanor, demeanour, behavior, behaviour, conduct, deportment]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1601 the manner in which one conducts oneself ; behavior Synonyms: see bearing

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. bearing, demeanour, or manners, esp. of a cultivated kind. Etymology: F déportement (as DEPORT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Deportment De*port"ment, n. [F. d['e]portement misconduct, OF., demeanor. See Deport.] Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing. The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through many difficulties. --Swift.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Your deportment is the way you behave, especially the way you walk and move. (FORMAL) = bearing

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Demeanor, behavior, carriage, conduct, bearing, manner, air, breeding.

Moby Thesaurus

action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, carriage, comportment, conduct, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, 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