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Meanings of properly so-called in English

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Usage of properly so-called in English
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At an age when everything is mysterious, there are no mysteries properly so-called.
Emile
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The quail, of all game properly so-called, is the nicest and the most pleasant.
The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy
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There is not a single tin mine, however, properly so-called.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Society, properly so-called, proceeds in exactly the same way.
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
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I do not think that there are any properly so-called cataracts between Kerri and the lake.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume...
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Martens, properly so-called, were hunted with great zeal.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
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In fact, the resistance of leather properly so-called to neutral dissolvents, argues in favor of this opinion.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
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A miracle is a grace intervening in things, just as grace properly so-called intervenes in human actions.
Initiation into Philosophy
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But there were no ocean steamers, properly so-called, and there were no steamers used for warlike purposes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881
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Real aesthetic progress began with the advent of the deep-level lines, the tubes properly so-called, in the 1890s.
The Guardian
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Road, properly so-called, there was none.
Hurricane Hurry
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In a crowd properly so-called- apopularassembly, for example-thereare unities which may belong to very different social categories.
The Psychology of Revolution
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As a rule the properly so-called psychasthenic has only disorders of the reflection; he doubts but he does not rave.
A Psychiatric Milestone: Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1...
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It may be readily admitted that the second dictum is true, that no language properly so-called can exist without reason.
Darwin and Modern Science
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Before proceeding to the period of my childhood, properly so-called, I will here insert a few words about my family.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) / 1809-1859
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All this pre-supposes the idea of God, and without that idea, there can be no justice and no rights, properly so-called.
Explanation of Catholic Morals / A Concise, Reasoned, and Popula...
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