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properness
UK /ˈpɹɒ.pə.nəs/ US /ˈpɹɒ.pɚ.nəs/
noun 3
Collocations
1PROPERNESS + NOUN
person
Definitions
noun
1
The state or condition of being proper; propriety.
The kind of women who put papers on shelves and had little towels like that instinctively distrusted and disliked Mack and the boys. Such women knew that they were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness.
2
The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.).
3
Excellence, quality.
Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits […] betook himself to his beads, and by those means got more honour than ever he should have done with the use of his limbs and properness of person […]
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — correct or appropriate behavior
- propriety
- correctitude
Antonyms
- impropriety
- improperness
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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The kind of women who put papers on shelves and had little towels like that instinctively distrusted and disliked Mack and the boys. Such women knew that they were the worst threats to a home, for the
Wiktionary02
Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits […] betook himself to his beads, and by those means got more honour than ever he should have done with the use of his limbs and properness of person […]
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