demeanourの意味・使い方・発音

demeanour

英 [dɪ'miːnə] 美

demeanour: demeanour: [15] A person’s demeanour is how they ‘conduct’ themselves. The word goes back ultimately to the literal notion of driving animals along. It is a derivative of the now virtually obsolete reflexive verb demean ‘behave’, borrowed in the 13th century from Old French demener. This was a compound formed from the intensive prefix de- and mener ‘lead’, a descendant of Latin mināre ‘drive a herd of animals’ (whose original connotation of ‘urging on with threats’ is revealed by its close relationship with minārī ‘threaten’, source of English menace).

This obsolete demean should not, incidentally, be confused with demean ‘degrade’ [17], which was formed from the adjective mean.
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demeanour: chiefly British English spelling of demeanor; for suffix, see -or.

2.The man was polite and his general demeanour had the air of a clergyman.: その男は礼儀正しく、一挙手一投足に教士の風格がある。

3.As soon as she woke up her demeanour had changed.

彼女が目を覚ますと、その動作は全く違っていた。

4.When Hanson came home he wore the same inscrutable demeanour .

漢生は家に帰っても、深い表情をしていた。

5.Minnie was truly distressed at this，but maintained a kindly demeanour .: ミニーはこのことで心配していたが、態度はずっと温和だった。