Word Meanings - DEMEANANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Demeanor. Skelton.

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• DEMEANOR
  1. Management; treatment; conduct. 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
• MISDEMEANOR
  A crime less than a felony. Wharton. Note: As a rule, in the old English law, offenses capitally punishable were felonies; all other indictable offenses were misdemeanors. In common usage, the word crime is employed to denote the offenses