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MIEN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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)

Credits

 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)