Portance
Origin
Middle French portance ("a carrying, support"), from porter ("to carry"), from Latin portare ("carry, bear, convey").
Full definition of portance
Noun
portance
- (obsolete) The manner in which one carries oneself; personal carriage; bearing; deportment; mien.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:for in court gay portaunce he perceiu'd,
And gallant shew to be in greatest gree ....
Synonyms
- port (also a dated/archaic sense)