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de·mean·or    Audio Help   [di-mee-ner] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.conduct; behavior; deportment.
2.facial appearance; mien.
Also, especially British, de·mean·our.

[Origin: 1425–75; late ME demenure. See demean2, -or1]

—Synonyms manner, comportment, bearing.
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de·mean·or    Audio Help   (dĭ-mē'nər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The way in which a person behaves; deportment.

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demeanor 
1494, from obsolete M.E. demean "behave in a certain way" (c.1315), from O.Fr. demener, from de- "completely" + mener "to lead, direct," from L. minare "to threaten," in L.L. "to drive (a herd of animals)." Sense in Eng. evolved from notion of "conduct, manage" (oneself).

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demeanor

noun
(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people 

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Demeanor

De*mean"or\, n. [Written also demeanour.] [For demeanure, fr. demean. See Demean, v. t.]

1. Management; treatment; conduct. [Obs.]

God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. --Milton.

2. Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.

His demeanor was singularly pleasing. --Macaulay.

The men, as usual, liked her artless kindness and simple refined demeanor. --Thackeray.
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