propriety
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Coined between 1425 and 1475 from late Middle English propriete (ownership), from Middle French propriété, from Latin proprietās and -ity[1]
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propriety (plural proprieties)
- correctness in behaviour and morals
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 12
- Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 12
- fitness; the quality of being appropriate
- 1850, Edward Ralph May, "Speech on African American Suffrage"
- Now, if we may, with propriety, refer to the people one question, why may we not, with equal propriety, refer another?
- 1850, Edward Ralph May, "Speech on African American Suffrage"
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correctness in behaviour and morals
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fitness; the quality of being appropriate
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