Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stickler for the proprieties; a formal and precise person.
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Examples
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I should like to put my savings into a proprietarian investment, and retire in the meanwhile into a communistic retreat, which is double-dealing.
Vailima Letters 2005
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Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.
Attack the System 2009
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Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.
Attack the System 2009
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Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.
Attack the System 2009
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The "non-force" force of proprietarian politicians doesn't interest me, and neither do vid's "voluntary" taxes.
Cafe Hayek 2008
hernesheir commented on the word proprietarian
“Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.” --from the Examples.
February 25, 2013