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DEPORTMENT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people

Synonyms:

behavior; behaviour; conduct; demeanor; demeanour; deportment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("deportment" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deportment"):

manners (social deportment)

citizenship (conduct as a citizen)

swashbuckling (flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior)

correctitude; properness; propriety (correct or appropriate behavior)

improperness; impropriety (an improper demeanor)

manner; personal manner (a way of acting or behaving)

Derivation:

deport (behave in a certain manner)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Jo sat as if blandly unconscious of it all, with deportment like Maud's face, 'icily regular, splendidly null'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The captain had no wife, nor above three servants, none of which were suffered to attend at meals; and his whole deportment was so obliging, added to very good human understanding, that I really began to tolerate his company.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I pass over Mr. Wickfield's proposing my aunt, his proposing Mr. Dick, his proposing Doctors' Commons, his proposing Uriah, his drinking everything twice; his consciousness of his own weakness, the ineffectual effort that he made against it; the struggle between his shame in Uriah's deportment, and his desire to conciliate him; the manifest exultation with which Uriah twisted and turned, and held him up before me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Bertram's attention and opinion was evidently his chief aim; and though her deportment showed rather conscious superiority than any solicitude to oblige him, the mention of Sotherton Court, and the ideas attached to it, gave her a feeling of complacency, which prevented her from being very ungracious.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Now, Jo dear, the Chesters consider themselves very elegant people, so I want you to put on your best deportment.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)