Definitions
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- noun obsolete
Demeanour ,behaviour ,comportment .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Robin," said Dinah, "I bin mistrus 'my boy Tom for sum time; he ain bin like what he used to be for sum weeks; he bin sassy to he daddy an me, an a don' care sort of 'haviour 'bout' im.
Uncle Robin, in his cabin in Virginia, and Tom without one in Boston 1853
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Pray write something of her friends be-haviour to her, and hers to them, to me particularly, besides what you write to your grandmamma: I shall take it for such a favour!
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Such dignity they observed (so does every-body), yet so much ease, in all he said, as well as in his own be-haviour Born to be a public man, would his pride permit him to aim at being so!
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With his mother and her unforgivable be - haviour!
The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002
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* Following through with education programmes, which target be - haviour change.
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Your dress is black, and during the time of waiting you compose your visage into a "tristful 'haviour," and lean in silent solemnity upon the top of your cane, thinking about -- last night's party.
The Laws of Etiquette Unknown
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His youth having been marked by some digressions from the "'haviour of reputation," his profession was far from affording him a subsistence; and the revolution, which seems to have called forth all that was turbulent, unprincipled, or necessitous in the country, naturally found a partizan in an attorney without practice.
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His youth having been marked by some digressions from the "'haviour of reputation," his profession was far from affording him a subsistence; and the revolution, which seems to have called forth all that was turbulent, unprincipled, or necessitous in the country, naturally found a partizan in an attorney without practice.
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And therefore thou may'st think my 'haviour light!
The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard
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There be of them diverse personages of good haviour (_sic_): and it is said amongst the same, that after they have delivered their confession to the King, that the spiritualty of
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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