Obs. [f. COMPORT v. + -ANCE.]
1. Carriage, bearing, behavior, manner of conducting oneself; (esp. in a favorable sense).
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 29. Goodly comportaunce each to other beare, And entertaine themselves with court’sies meet.
1630. Lane, Sqr.’s Tale, p. 144, note. Now Orbell … him bore with such substancial comportance.
1644. J. Goodwin, Innoc. Triumph., To Rdr. 1. A man of no benevolous or friendly comportance with those, to whom he … speaketh.
2. Agreement, accordance; compliance.
1648. J. Goodwin, Right & Might, 41. Calvin’s apprehensions are of best comportance with the words. Ibid. (a. 1665), Filled w. Spirit (1867), 265. The word signifieth, let your yieldingness, or comportance and compliance, be known unto all men.
