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MIEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dignified manner or conduct
Synonyms:
bearing; comportment; mien; presence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("mien" is a kind of...):
manner; personal manner (a way of acting or behaving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mien"):
dignity; gravitas; lordliness (formality in bearing and appearance)
Context examples:
There is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate ears: who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society, much as the son of Imlah came before the throned Kings of Judah and Israel; and who speaks truth as deep, with a power as prophet-like and as vital—a mien as dauntless and as daring.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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