Meanings
plural deportments
- Bearing; manner of presenting oneself.
Her deportment impressed her interviewers.
1 more example
...Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact...
1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in UlyssesSynonyms: bearing, comportment, posture
- Self-discipline.
The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounBearing; manner of presenting oneself.
More synonyms by meaning
noun(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Frenchdeportement
- Englishdeportment
From Late Middle French deportement (French déportement). By surface analysis, deport + -ment.
More words from Middle French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech držení těla, vystupování
- držení tělabearing, posture
- vystupováníbearing, posture
- vystupováníconduct
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