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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

plu.

Deportment; carriage; behavior; conduct; course of life; in a moral sense.

Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Cor.15.

Ceremonious behavior; civility; decent and respectful deportment.

Shall we, in our applications to the great God, take that to be religion, which the common reason of mankind will not allow to be manners?

A bow or courtesy; as, make your manners; a popular use of the word.