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Posture

//ˈpɒst͡ʃə// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The way a person holds and positions their body. countable, uncountable

    "As if that whatsoever god who leads him Were slily crept into his human powers, And gave him graceful posture."

  2. 2
    characteristic way of bearing one's body wordnet
  3. 3
    A situation or condition. countable, uncountable

    "Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs […]"

  4. 4
    the arrangement of the body and its limbs wordnet
  5. 5
    One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person. countable, uncountable

    "1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan ...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War."

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  1. 6
    capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war wordnet
  2. 7
    The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation. countable, rare, uncountable

    "1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear."

  3. 8
    a rationalized mental attitude wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired intransitive

    "If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?"

  2. 2
    assume a posture as for artistic purposes wordnet
  3. 3
    to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction intransitive

    "The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media."

  4. 4
    behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others wordnet
  5. 5
    To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose. transitive

    "to posture oneself; to posture a model"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French posture, from Italian postura, from Latin positūra (“position, situation”). Doublet of positura.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French posture, from Italian postura, from Latin positūra (“position, situation”). Doublet of positura.

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