"comportable" meaning in English

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          "text": "But, when his nephew, leaning an elbow on the table, covered his eyes thoughtfully and dejectedly with his hand, the fine mask looked at him sideways with a stonger concentration of keenness, closeness, and dislike, than was comportable with its wearer's assumption of indifference.",
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          "ref": "1909, Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure - Volume 33, page 1487:",
          "text": "If penetration is the only inference comportable with the evidence it is sufficient.",
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          "ref": "1932, Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, Mutiny on the Bounty:",
          "text": "We had decent food, hammocks to sleep in,and were granted all privileges comportable with our position as prisoners.",
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        "Consistent; suitable."
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          "ref": "1985, Edward George Schwaegerle, The Schneller/Cromwell Families:",
          "text": "Number 2, at present in the occupation of Oliver Cromwell, and divided from the former by Conococheqgue Creek, contains 340 or 350 acres—the soil is productive, the improvements neat and comportable, and there is from 130 to 150 acres of it still in woods, which is covered with timber of a very superior quality.",
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          "text": "A person could only be present with us as a whole person, then, provided her actions were comportable and provided we were somehow in a position to appreciate that comportability .",
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          "ref": "2017, Charles Dudley Warner, The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner:",
          "text": "She must be of chaste thoughts, stout courage, patient, untired, watchful, diligent, witty, pleasant, constant in friendship, full of good neighborhood, wise in discourse, but not frequent therein, sharp and quick of speech, but not bitter or talkative, secret in her affairs, comportable in her counsels, and generally skillful in the worthy knowledges which do belong to her vocation.",
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