(idiomatic) To behave and conduct oneself in such a manner that others will give one respect.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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1940, Winston Churchill, 18 June 1940, in the British Parliament