DEPORTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deportment mean? 

• DEPORTMENT (noun)
  The noun DEPORTMENT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DEPORTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPORTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

behavior; behaviour; conduct; demeanor; demeanour; deportment

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)

 Context examples 

She got through her lessons as well as she could, and managed to escape reprimands by being a model of deportment.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His deportment had now for some weeks been more uniform towards me than at the first.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment of a lady?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He snarled softly up at the thing of fear, watching keenly the deportment of the hands.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.

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

His deportment would have been fierce in a butcher or a brandy-merchant.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Nature has denied him the highest gifts, and I find him adverse to employing the compensating advantages of art; but, at least, I have shown him something of life, and I have taught him a few lessons in finesse and deportment which may appear to be wasted upon him at present, but which, none the less, may come back to him in his more mature years.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram received her very kindly; and Sir Thomas, seeing how much she needed encouragement, tried to be all that was conciliating: but he had to work against a most untoward gravity of deportment; and Lady Bertram, without taking half so much trouble, or speaking one word where he spoke ten, by the mere aid of a good-humoured smile, became immediately the less awful character of the two.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They may be undeveloped types, said he, stroking his beard and looking round at them, but their deportment in the presence of their superiors might be a lesson to some of our more advanced Europeans.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When, after examining the mother, in whose countenance and deportment she soon found some resemblance of Mr. Darcy, she turned her eyes on the daughter, she could almost have joined in Maria's astonishment at her being so thin and so small.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)