Propriety

'If Wit has truly been defined as a Propriety of Thoughts and

Spectator, May 11, 1711 1711

'If Wit has truly been defined as a Propriety of Thoughts and Words, then that definition will extend to all sorts of Poetry ...

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

The Distribution of the Materials of this Nourishment, is the constitution of Mine, and Thine, and His, that is to say, in one word Propriety; and belongeth in all kinds of Common-wealth to the Soveraign Power.

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

"Propriety", on the other hand, suggests that our whole system needs to be scrapped and replaced with one that doesn't need to generate criminal "leaders" to protect the interests of a ruling elite from the opposing interests of everybody else.

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Warkworth guessed, of course, that she was Madame Bornier, the foster-sister -- the "Propriety" of this _ménage_.

Lady Rose's Daughter Humphry Ward 1885

"Propriety" cried us down with her brazen blatant voice, and the weak kneed brethren fell away.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Reduce these qualities to one denomination, and we come to something that may be called "Propriety": a sufficiently disastrous "raw material" for the purposes of a poet, and by no means loftily to be praised or admired even when regarded as the outer investiture of a nobler poetic something within.

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815

'Propriety' cried us down with her brazen, blatant voice, and the weak-kneed brethren fell away. [

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

'Propriety' cried us down with her brazen, blatant voice, and the weak-kneed brethren fell away. [

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

"Propriety," answered Frank, "consists in two young men escaping from the city and relieving one tired school-teacher from her duty and permitting her to go and gather flowers if she will.

Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast Charles Clark Munn 1882