demeanour - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
demeanour (plural demeanours)
- UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Commonwealth spelling of demeanor
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.