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noun

Demeanor n. (Written also demeanour)

Management; treatment; conduct. (Obs.) "God commits the managing so great a trust... wholly to the demeanor of every grown man."

Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien. "His demeanor was singularly pleasing." "The men, as usual, liked her artless kindness and simple refined demeanor."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Demeanour" Quotes from Famous Books

... indecorum of demeanour in his favourite characters, as in Bertoldo in the Maid of Honour, who is a swaggerer, talking to his sovereign what no sovereign could endure, and to gentlemen what no gentleman would answer without ...

— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge

... for news, for Raymond had apparently been unconscious of his existence at the funeral. He, too, noted the change in Ironsyde's demeanour. ...

— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts

... lover's demeanour, on his return to Grassdale, brought unspeakable joy to the heart of Madeline Lester. But hardly had Aram left Houseman's squalid haunt in Lambeth when a letter was put into the ruffian's hand telling of his daughter's serious illness. For this daughter Houseman, villain as he was, would willingly ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various

... hair, shaggy eyebrows, an enormous pendent moustache, a defiant air, and a peculiar expression of countenance which plainly indicated "an ugly customer." Though it was still early in the day, he had evidently already imbibed a considerable quantity of alcohol, and his whole demeanour showed clearly enough that he was not of those who are "pleasant in their liquor." After glancing superciliously at the documents, as if to intimate he could read them were he so disposed, he threw them down on the table, and, thrusting his gigantic paws into his capacious trouser-pockets, ...

— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

... voice and self-satisfied demeanour, who had started them upon this adventure, was still ahead; but even she quailed when, upon laying her hand upon the panel of the door she was the first to reach, she felt it to be cold and knew it to be made not of wood but of iron. How great must be the treasure or ...

— Dark Hollow • Anna Katharine Green

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