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Definition of comport
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Examples of comport in a Sentence
an outfit that most definitely does not comport with the company's guidelines for dress-down days
the grieving relatives comported themselves with grace and dignity during that difficult time
Recent Examples of comport from the Web
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Happily, humanity is comporting itself with ever-increasing rationality in the face of this growing threat.
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The anchors focus on actual news, work together to ask good questions and comport themselves in a refreshing, low-key style that plays well early in the morning.
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Its battery chargers don’t comport with China’s national standard.
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Alexander’s projection comports with a recent Bloomberg report, which says that Apple plans to update its MacBooks at the June conference.
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His brief concurring opinion emphasized that the result comported with two of his longstanding views.
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The delay comported with the desires of the Turkish government, which had paid Flynn more than half a million dollars.
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Watching footage of Gibbs walking into an Austrian courthouse, dressed in a suit and accompanied by his fiancée, comporting himself professionally but nonetheless terrified, is heartbreaking.
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History does not tell us how the dog comported himself in the canoe.
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Did You Know?
With its prefix com-, "with", the Latin word comportare meant "to bring together". So it's easy to see how in English we could say that a college's policy comports with state law, or that a visit to your parents doesn't comport with your other weekend plans, or that your aunt and uncle won't listen to anything on TV that doesn't comport with their prejudices. The "behave" sense of the word comes through French, and its essential meaning is how a person "carries" him- or herself. So you may say, for instance, that your 17-year-old comported himself well (for once!) at the wedding reception, or that an ambassador always comports herself with dignity—that is, her comportment is always dignified—or that your class comported itself in a way that was a credit to the school.
Origin and Etymology of comport
Middle French comporter to bear, conduct, from Latin comportare to bring together, from com- + portare to carry — more at fare
Synonym Discussion of comport
Recent Examples of comport from the Web
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The display in the images and video comports with reports that the OLED screen may be flat – or at least flatter than the curved OLED display on the Samsung Galaxy S8.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'comport'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of comport
1771
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