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Definition of Comportments
1. comportment [n] - See also: comportment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comportments
Literary usage of Comportments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education in Retrospect: Policy and Implementation Since 1990 by Michael F. D. Young, Andre Kraak (2001)
"It is the almost inadvertent learning of the important comportments - 'logical,
artistic, psychological experience [was] gained unawares, ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... of those people to pry more than they should into the courts and comportments
of princes, to take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them. ..."
3. Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1907)
"... is like to offer a more faire ana ample choice of fruitfull habitations, then
hitherto our gentle- nesse and faire comportments could attaine unto. ..."
4. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1812)
"... is like to offer a more fair and ample choice of fruitful habitations than
hitherto our gentle- nefs and fair comportments could attain unto. ..."
5. The Old Colonial System, 1660-1754 by George Louis Beer (1913)
"He further added that "some late Stubborn Carriage in the Plantations" would
occasion a stricter inquiry into "their comportments," than hitherto had been ..."
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