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Greek

2688. katastema -- demeanor
... Neuter Transliteration: katastema Phonetic Spelling: (kat-as'-tay-mah) Short Definition:
behavior, conduct Definition: behavior, conduct, deportment, demeanor. ...
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5158. tropos -- a way, manner, fashion
... as trope; a turn, ie (by implication) mode or style (especially with preposition
or relative prefix as adverb, like); figuratively, deportment or character ...
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Library

The Life of Mr. Thomas Hog.
... family, was his being the instrument to convert a young gentleman of the name of
Munro who frequented the house, and though of a sober deportment, yet void of ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the life of mr thomas.htm

Laymen Called to the Field of Missions.
... only to be Christians in name, but to exhibit also intelligence and good order,
purity and loveliness, industry and enterprise; in a word, a deportment in all ...
/.../dibble/thoughts on missions/chapter v laymen called to.htm

Letter xv. Social and Relative Duties.
... Endeavor, then, to maintain, in your family intercourse, the same dignity and
propriety of deportment which you wish to sustain in society. ...
/.../letter xv social and relative.htm

A Faithful Undershepherd
... If the character and deportment of the shepherd is an exemplification of the truth
he advocates, the Lord will set the seal of His approval to the work. ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 51 a faithful undershepherd.htm

An Account of the General Conference of 1800
... and was highly distinguished for the meekness and quietness of his spirit, as much
as the prudence of his conduct, and the exemplariness of his deportment. ...
/.../chapter 4 an account of.htm

On Religion; the Natural and Divine Life; and the Exemplification ...
... In fine, it is no small difference in the deportment of mere natural men, that doth
arise from the strength or weakness of their wit or judgment, and from ...
/.../scougal/the life of god in the soul of man/part i on religion the.htm

The Gentle Boy
... produced actions contrary to the rules of decency, as well as of rational religion,
and presented a singular contrast to the calm and staid deportment of their ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/the gentle boy.htm

A Preface
... thirstings after farther acquaintance with the Father, in the Son; your tenderness
of heart, your trembling at sin, your sober and holy deportment also, before ...
/.../bunyan/grace abounding to the chief of sinners/a preface.htm

On the Excellency of Religion and Divine Love.
... whom they affect; and how, even before they are aware, they begin to resemble them,
not only in the more considerable instances of their deportment, but also ...
/.../scougal/the life of god in the soul of man/part ii on the excellency.htm

part i.
... They were made in his own image"framed to resemble him in their intellectual and
moral capacities, and to imitate him in the spirit of their deportment. ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) Manner of acting; conduct; carriage of self; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.

Thesaurus

Deportment (12 Occurrences)
... behavior; demeanor; bearing. Multi-Version Concordance Deportment (12
Occurrences). 1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner also that the women ...
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Behavior (20 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of
conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate ...
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Conversation (30 Occurrences)
... Generally the goings out and in of social intercourse (Ephesians 2:3; 4:22;
RV, "manner of life"); one's deportment or course of life. ...
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Attendants (30 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 10:5 and the food of his table, and the deportment of his servants, and
the order of service of his attendants, and their apparel, and his cupbearers ...
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Deported (12 Occurrences)

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Levity (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Frivolity; inappropriate lack of gravity and
seriousness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; sportiveness; vanity. ...
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Graceful (6 Occurrences)
... (a.) Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in
appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. ...
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Reclaim (1 Occurrence)
... 6. (vt) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to
draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. ...
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Respectful (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Marked or characterized by respect; as, respectful
deportment. Multi-Version Concordance Respectful (6 Occurrences). ...
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Repose (8 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet. 8. (v.) Rest of mind; tranquility;
freedom from uneasiness; also, a composed manner or deportment. ...
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Bible Concordance

Deportment (12 Occurrences)

1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited hair and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,
(DBY)

1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in deportment, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
(WBS)

Titus 2:3 that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;
(DBY YLT)

James 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show by a good deportment his works with meekness of wisdom.
(WBS)

1 Peter 1:15 But as he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of deportment.
(WBS)

1 Peter 3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the deportment of the wives;
(WBS)

1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good deportment in Christ.
(WBS)

2 Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy deportment and godliness,
(WBS)

1 Kings 10:5 and the food of his table, and the deportment of his servants, and the order of service of his attendants, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Jehovah, there was no more spirit in her.
(DBY)

2 Chronicles 9:4 and the food of his table, and the deportment of his servants, and the order of service of his attendants and their apparel, and his cupbearers and their apparel, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Jehovah, there was no more spirit in her.
(DBY)

Psalms 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as are of upright deportment.
(WBS)

Psalms 50:23 Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his deportment aright will I show the salvation of God.
(WBS)

Subtopics

Deportment

Related Terms

Behavior (20 Occurrences)

Conversation (30 Occurrences)

Attendants (30 Occurrences)

Deported (12 Occurrences)

Levity (2 Occurrences)

Graceful (6 Occurrences)

Reclaim (1 Occurrence)

Respectful (6 Occurrences)