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comportance

/kəmˈpɔː(ɹ)təns/

comportance noun: behaviour; manner of acting.

Noun

comportance (usually uncountable, plural comportances)

  1. (obsolete, usually) behaviour; manner of acting.
    • Goodly comportance each to other beare.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29

Forms of comportance

pluralcomportances

Questions about comportance

What does comportance mean?
Comportance means behaviour; manner of acting.
What part of speech is comportance?
Comportance is a noun.
How do you pronounce comportance?
Comportance is pronounced /kəmˈpɔː(ɹ)təns/.
What is the plural of comportance?
The plural of comportance is comportances.

Words near comportance in the dictionary

  1. compoplot
  2. compoplots
  3. comport
  4. comportability
  5. comportable
  6. comportance
  7. comportances
  8. comportation
  9. comportations
  10. comported
  11. comportest

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