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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