different between demure vs comport

English

Etymology

From Middle English demure, demwre, of uncertain formation, but probably from Old French meur (Modern French mûr) from Latin maturus. The "de-" is "of", as in "of maturity".

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??mj??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??mj??/

Distinguish from pronunciation of demur

• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Adjective

demure (comparative demurer, superlative demurest)

1. (usually of women) Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.

   She is a demure young lady.

   • 1881, William Black, The Beautiful Wretch

     Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes.
2. Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
   • c. 1824, Mary Russell Mitford, Walks in the Country

     Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head.

Derived terms

• as demure as a whore at a christening
• demurely
• demureness

Translations

Verb

demure (third-person singular simple present demures, present participle demuring, simple past and past participle demured)

1. (obsolete) To look demurely.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (act 4, scene 16, line 30)

     Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes […] shall acquire no Honour Demuring upon me.

English

Etymology

From late Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, from Latin comportare (“to bring together”), from com- (“together”) + portare (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?p??(?)t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

comport (third-person singular simple present comports, present participle comporting, simple past and past participle comported)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To tolerate, bear, put up (with). [16th–19th c.]

   to comport with an injury

   • 1595, Samuel Daniel, The First Four Books of the Civil Wars

     The malecontented sort / That never can the present state comport.

2. (intransitive) To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord. [from 16th c.]

   The new rules did not seem to comport with the spirit of the club.

   • How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.

   • 1707, John Locke, A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul

     How their behaviour herein comported with the institution.

3. (reflexive) To behave (in a given manner). [from 17th c.]

   She comported herself with grace.

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     Observe how Lord Somers […] comported himself.

Synonyms

• (be in agreement): cohere
• (behave): carry oneself, bear oneself

Translations

Noun

comport

1. (obsolete) Manner of acting; conduct; deportment.

   • I know them well, and mark'd their rude comport.

Catalan

Etymology

From comportar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?p??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?p?rt/

Noun

comport m (plural comports)

1. conduct, behaviour

Further reading

• “comport” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kom?port]

Verb

comport

1. first-person singular present indicative of comporta
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of comporta