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deportment

Today it means: Bearing; manner of presenting oneself. Full definition →

Middle French deportement

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Middle French · borrowed fromdeportement
English todaydeportment

From Late Middle French deportement (French déportement). By surface analysis, deport + -ment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.