Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableDemeanour, behaviour, comportment.
To Faery court she came, where many one Admyrd her goodly haueour […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC2 more examples
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods and shapes of grief, That can denote me truly.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]Put thy ſelfe Into a hauiour of leſſe feare, ere wildneſſe Vanquiſh my ſtayder Senſes.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 382, column 2
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Frenchaveir
- Anglo-Normanaveyr
- Middle Englishhavour
- Englishhaviour
From Middle English havour, from Anglo-Norman aveyr, Old French aveir.
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