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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Written also

demeanour

[For

demeanure

, fr.

demean

. See

Verb.

]

Management; treatment; conduct.

[Obs.]

God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the

demeanor

of every grown man.

Milton.

Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.

His

demeanor

was singularly pleasing.

Macaulay.

The men, as usual, liked her artless kindness and simple refined

demeanor

Thackeray.

Noun.

Behavior; carriage; deportment; as decent demeanor; sad demeanor.