comportment
/kəmˈpɔːtm(ə)nt
/noun [mass noun]
Behaviour; bearing: he displayed precisely the comportment expected of the rightful king...
- YMCA members were not so desperate for social acceptance that they would accept without question those ideas of social behaviour and comportment so benevolently introduced to them by their middle-class patrons.
- It may not be criminal but, at the end of the day, is this the standard of ethical comportment that we expect from our senior public servants?
- Their comportment and appearance are not kooky by any means.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French comportement, from the verb comporter, from Latin comportare (see comport1).
- pendopo
- Pendragon
- Pendred
- pendrin
- pen drive
- pendulant
- pendular
- pendulate
- pendulation
- pendule
- pendulent
- penduline tit
- pendulosity
- pendulous
- pendulously
- pendulousness
- pendulum
- pendulum arbitration
- pendulum ball
- pendulum bob
- pendulum clock
- pendulum governor
- pendulum hausse
- pendulum observation
- pendulum saw