haviour
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English havour, from Anglo-Norman aveyr, Old French aveir.
Noun edit
haviour (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Demeanour, behaviour, comportment.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- To Faery court she came, where many one
Admyrd her goodly haueour […]
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected haviour of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods and shapes of grief,
That can denote me truly.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 382, column 2:
- Put thy ſelfe
Into a hauiour of leſſe feare, ere wildneſſe
Vanquiſh my ſtayder Senſes.