PROPRIETY
\pɹəpɹˈa͡ɪ͡ətɪ], \pɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ], \p_ɹ_ə_p_ɹ_ˈaɪə_t_ɪ]\
Definitions of PROPRIETY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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State of being proper or right: agreement with established principles or customs: fitness: accuracy: peculiar right of possession, property.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Fitness; suitableness; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; justness; accuracy; originally, property or ownership. See Proper.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Ownership or possession; now, state of being right or proper; appropriateness; conformity to established rules or customs; decorum.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
