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Meanings of propriety in English

Catalan
procedència
Spanish
procedencia

Correct or appropriate behavior.

procedència
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Examples for "correctitude"
Examples for "correctitude"
1
The irony of his tone belied the suave correctitude of his words.
Simon the Jester
2
The German sense of correctitude was deeply shocked by this outbreak.
The War in the Air
3
The twain were petrified in their own awful correctitude.
Jaffery
4
He armed himself with a cold correctitude of politeness, and lowered the social temperature instead of raising it.
Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch
5
A figure of correctitude entered.
King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
1
She did glance down at her dress, though, checking it for neatness, for secretarial properness.
Ladder of years: a novel
2
How then can I, not having been birthed with properness become into one Genius on the instant?
Seven Maids of Far Cathay: Being English Notes From a Chinese Cl...
3
The sun shining so hot that you could go in your house-dress but for the properness of it.
Memories of Hawthorne
4
I want properness in my communication.
The Neutronium Alchemist
5
And it must be that you do all see with me in this matter, and commend me that I thought with properness.
The Night Land
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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United States of America
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