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MARCH 21, 2017
comportmentnoun [kuh m-PAWRT-muh nt, -POHRT-]
1. personal bearing or conduct; demeanor; behavior.
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6 words that can ruin your sentenceQUOTESMiss Baker and Miss Inglis had
founded the school back in 1911, in the words of the charter, "to
educate girls in the humanities and sciences and to cultivate in them a
love of learning, a modest comportment, an amiable grace, and an
interest in civic duty above all."
-- Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, 2002 ORIGINComportment came to English
from Middle French in the late 1500s. The wordcomport ultimately
derives from the Latin verb comportÄre âto transport.â
