Deport vs Deportment - What's the difference?
deport | deportment |
To comport (oneself); to behave.
* Alexander Pope
To evict, especially from a country.
* Walsh
bearing; manner of presenting oneself:
:Her deportment impressed her interviewers.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
*:...Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact...
conduct; public behavior:
:Their deportment changed visibly as the policeman approached.
apparent level of schooling or training:
:His academic deportment did not match his degree record.
self-discipline:
:The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.
As a verb deport
is to comport (oneself); to behave.As a noun deportment is
bearing; manner of presenting oneself.deport
English
Verb
(en verb)- Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.
- He told us he had been deported to Spain.