Both Uses of
propriety
in
The Scarlet Letter
- It will be seen, likewise, that this Custom-House sketch has a certain propriety, of a kind always recognised in literature, as explaining how a large portion of the following pages came into my possession, and as offering proofs of the authenticity of a narrative therein contained.†
Chpt Intr.
- One of the most remarkable occasions, when the habit of bygone days awoke in me, was that which brings it within the law of literary propriety to offer the public the sketch which I am now writing.†
Chpt Intr. *
Definition:
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(propriety) socially correct or appropriate behavior