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Definition of Deportment
1. Noun. (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people.
Generic synonyms: Trait
Specialized synonyms: Manners, Citizenship, Swashbuckling, Correctitude, Properness, Propriety, Improperness, Impropriety, Manner, Personal Manner
Derivative terms: Conduct, Deport
Definition of Deportment
1. n. Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.
Definition of Deportment
1. Noun. bearing; manner of presenting oneself: ¹
2. Noun. conduct; public behavior: ¹
3. Noun. apparent level of schooling or training: ¹
4. Noun. self-discipline: ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deportment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deportment
Literary usage of Deportment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Democrat, Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the by James Fenimore Cooper (1838)
"ON AMERICAN deportment. The American people are superior in deportment, in several
particulars, to the people of Europe, and inferior in others. ..."
2. The American Democrat, Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the by James Fenimore Cooper (1838)
"A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, ...
The American people are superior in deportment, in several particulars, ..."
3. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1897)
"REACTIONS, OR deportment OF BODIES WITH REAGENTS. § 91. IN my introductory remarks,
I stated that the operations and experiments of qualitative analysis ..."
4. Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1897)
"form part of 'polite manners' in this wider sense of the phrase; so that we can
divide the topic under the two heads of personal deportment and behaviour to ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"heretofore had, and resumed the simpler habits and deportment of his early New
England breeding. Not but what you discover, nevertheless, that he is a man ..."
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