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This cautionary legalism, which prevails when describing naughty behavior, is never extended to the reportage of good behavior: one never reads of the

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  1. noun The manner in which one behaves.
  2. noun The actions or reactions of a person or animal in response to external or internal stimuli.
  3. noun One of these actions or reactions: "a hormone . . . known to directly control sex-specific reproductive and parenting behaviors in a wide variety of vertebrates” (Thomas Maugh II).
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  • This cautionary legalism, which prevails when describing naughty behavior, is never extended to the reportage of good behavior: one never reads of the —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2
  • Only a hint is provided, however, of the astounding adaptations in behavior, anatomy, ecology, and whatnot. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
  • As the boat was proceeding now in a north-northeast direction, the distance to their hypothetical point of landing had grown by a few more miles. —  The Venus Trap
  • "I wonder if their nose-singing causes their histrionic behavior, or if the behavior is at the root of the singing." —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • "The scientific tradition," Nansen said. —  Starfarers
 

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  1. Middle English behavour, from behaven, to behave (on the model of havour, behavior, from Old French avoir, from avoir, to have); see behave.
 

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