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verb

Deport v. t. (past & past part. deported; pres. part. deporting)

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment; to expel (from a region or country). "He told us he had been deported to Spain."

To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; followed by the reflexive pronoun. "Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince."

noun

Deport n. Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment. (Obs.) "Goddesslike deport."

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"Deport" Quotes from Famous Books

... to Suakim, Baring sending Sir Evelyn Wood to meet him. Baring had already given orders, through Nubar, to commence the evacuation. Gordon had telegraphed to us requesting us to send Zebehr Pasha to Cyprus—that is, arbitrarily to arrest him and deport him. Yet, when he reached Cairo, at his own wish he had had an interview with this very man, and shortly afterwards he telegraphed to us, asking leave to take him to Khartoum and to make him virtually ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... oath. A short while thereafter they carried into exile, not only the king, but also his mother, and ten thousand (131) of the Jewish nobility and of the great scholars. (132) This was the second attempt made by Nebuchadnezzar to deport the Jews. On taking the former king Jehoiakim captive, he had exiled three hundred of the noblest of the people, among ...

— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

... corridor he tried to discover how matters stood, but the woman he dreaded to meet had been borne to her room and medical attendance had been summoned. This Mr. Stephens learned from a waiter; so, determined to deport himself as if he knew nothing of the cause of the lady's illness, and was as much puzzled at the occurrence as the rest of those who had either witnessed it or come on the scene soon afterwards, he returned ...

— The Mysteries of Montreal - Being Recollections of a Female Physician • Charlotte Fuhrer

... a Quaker, denotes that you will have faithful friends and fair business. If you are one, you will deport yourself ...

— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... Deportation cases, 149 U. S. 698, shocked the sense of justice of many. It was to the effect that Congress could empower the executive to arrest upon its own warrant any person it claimed to be an alien unlawfully residing in the United States and to deport him without trial, unless he could affirmatively prove to the satisfaction of a single judge (to be selected by the executive), and by a specified kind of evidence only, that he was not guilty, however ample and probative other evidence might be adduced and however impossible to produce the specified ...

— Concerning Justice • Lucilius A. Emery

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