demeanance

English

Noun

demeanance (plural not attested)

1. (obsolete) demeanor
   • c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, Magnyfycence; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 179, lines 1417–1419:

     I truste your grace wyll be agreabyll
     That I shall suffer none impechment
     By theyr demenaunce, nor loss repryvable.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “demeanance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)