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Deportment vs Baring - What's the difference?

deportment | baring |

As nouns the difference between deportment and baring

is that deportment is bearing; manner of presenting oneself while baring is the act by which something is laid bare.

As a verb baring is

present participle of lang=en.

deportment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • See also

    *comportment, behavior, accord

    baring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is laid bare.
  • * 2008 , Carolyn Arends, Wrestling with Angels: Adventures in Faith and Doubt (page 90)
    • These woods loom large in my history — they were the site of two clumsy first kisses, one heart-crushing breakup, and countless whispered barings of the soul — but they are even more solidly a part of my present.
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