comportance

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/kəmˈpɔː(ɹ)təns/

noun

behaviour; manner of acting.

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Meanings

nouncomportance (usually uncountable, plural comportances)

plural comportances

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallybehaviour; manner of acting.

    Goodly comportance each to other beare.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29
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APA

comportance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comportance

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“comportance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comportance. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “comportance,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comportance.

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