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- noun Plural form of
propriety . - noun The
customs associated withpolite society
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Examples
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We talked of this to the young vicar, who highly approved of my plan, and albeit monsieur his uncle thought such a scheme somewhat contrary to rule and to what he termed the proprieties, we made use of his nephew, the young priest, as a lever; and M. de Poitiers at last consented to everything.
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We talked of this to the young vicar, who highly approved of my plan, and albeit monsieur his uncle thought such a scheme somewhat contrary to rule and to what he termed the proprieties, we made use of his nephew, the young priest, as a lever; and M. de Poitiers at last consented to everything.
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We talked of this to the young vicar, who highly approved of my plan, and albeit monsieur his uncle thought such a scheme somewhat contrary to rule and to what he termed the proprieties, we made use of his nephew, the young priest, as a lever; and M. de Poitiers at last consented to everything.
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The kaleidoscope had brought certain proprieties into full observation which had for some time been unnoticed – there was no doubt about that.
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Dimly recalling the proprieties, she reluctantly drew away.
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Dimly recalling the proprieties, she reluctantly drew away.
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The proprieties are the guiding principle of people without soul and virtue.
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The proprieties are the guiding principle of people without soul and virtue.
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Nothing restrains him; not even the so-called proprieties of history.
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The one was a strict observer of the laws of propriety and an almost exclusive frequenter of fashionable society; the other, on the contrary, had an unmitigated scorn for the so - called proprieties and so-called good society.
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