comportment

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
comportment
    n 1: dignified manner or conduct [syn: {bearing}, {comportment},
         {presence}, {mien}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Comportment \Com*port"ment\, n. [F. comportement.]
   Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
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         A graceful comportment of their bodies.  --Cowley.
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         Her serious and devout comportment.      --Addison.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "comportment":
      action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air,
      bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm,
      behavioral science, carriage, conduct, culture pattern, custom,
      demeanor, deportment, 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
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