comport
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Is comport a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, ambitransitive) To tolerate, bear, put up (with).Examples: "to comport with an injury"; "The malecontented sort / That never can the present state comport."ambitransitiveobsolete
2. (intransitive) To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord.Examples: "The new rules did not seem to comport with the spirit of the club."; "How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness."; "How their behaviour herein comported with the institution."Synonyms: cohereintransitive
3. (reflexive) To behave (in a given manner).Examples: "She comported herself with grace."; "Observe how Lord Somers […] comported himself."; "Though genial enough when she got her way, on the rare occasions when people attempted to thwart her she was apt to comport herself in a manner reminiscent of Cleopatra on one of the latter’s bad mornings."Synonyms: carry oneself, bear oneselfreflexive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Manner of acting; conduct; comportment; deportment.Examples: "I know them well, and mark'd their rude comport."; "Personal virtues can be symbolic of capital—e.g., comport and charm as marks of “good” breeding—but to be a “celebrity” or “surgeon” or “professor” requires specific forms of capital."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary