All 8 Uses

demeanor
in
A Thousand Acres
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Caroline shook hands with Jess in her brisk, lawyer's way that Rose always called her "take-me-seriously-or-I'll-sue-you" demeanor.†
p. 13.4
She bottle-fed Caroline and I'm sure she bottle-fed us, in spite of the fact that farmwives never willingly take on extra work, and her demeanor during the feedings was rather impersonal as I later recalled it.†
p. 93.4
I could, of course, read by his demeanor that he was displeased, but how this displeasure would incubate I could not and did not know.†
p. 177.5
It was that his whole demeanor was a tad abashed, even sub missive.†
p. 213.9
But his whole demeanor said those days were gone now, nothing.†
p. 217.9
The impenetrable face of a hopeful girl, dressed in the unrevealing uniform of the time; her demeanor was sturdily virtuous.†
p. 226.9 *
I ventured awkward sympathy that failed to ease or soften his demeanor.†
p. 230.5
His tone and demeanor were warmly sympathetic here, and it occurred to me that in the past he would have suckered me, back when I would have readily called him my friend just because I would have been flattered by the public acknowledgment of such a friendship.†
p. 267.5

Definitions:

(1) (demeanor)
the manner in which a person behaves
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, the verb form may be used as a synonym for behave as in: "Try to demean yourself with dignity."