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Meanings of propriety in English

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procedència
Spanish
procedencia

Correct or appropriate behavior.

procedència
Usage of propriety in English
1
Nothing was sacrificed to conventional ideas of propriety in his extraordinary dress.
The Law and the Lady
2
Because to Sharaf's mind, Keller's presence imperiled far more than social propriety.
Layover in dubai
3
For the rest of the week the children were models of propriety.
The Story of the Big Front Door
4
There can be no doubt about this; I feel the deep propriety.
The Young Duke
5
There was a dash of daring and doubtful propriety in the proposal.
The Christian: A Story
6
He has, in the first, used the pagan deities with great propriety:
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
7
There is always a propriety in truth, and an impropriety in falsehood.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
8
Words were exchanged despite Victorian propriety and she felt gay and giddy.
Ghosts
9
The third resolution declares the necessity and propriety of a national bank.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843
10
They were indeed merely a matter of family tradition and social propriety.
Equality
11
Mrs. Eyrecourt set up the old objection of the claims of propriety.
The Black Robe
12
The noble Earl has alluded to the propriety of effecting parliamentary reform.
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
13
There was great reason to doubt the propriety of the present motion.
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol...
14
Thus Jupiter had in propriety Ganymede and Mercury, and Juno had Iris.
Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry
15
Perhaps I may with propriety add one thing of a personal nature.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
16
One of these bâtons of propriety still is preserved in Longmeadow, Mass.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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United Kingdom
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