All 8 Uses of
propriety
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Mr. Darcy, with grave propriety, requested to be allowed the honour of her hand, but in vain.†
Chpt 6 *
- Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representation, you must remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and the delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety.†
Chpt 10
- It could not be for society, as he frequently sat there ten minutes together without opening his lips; and when he did speak, it seemed the effect of necessity rather than of choice—a sacrifice to propriety, not a pleasure to himself.†
Chpt 32
- "I do not see what right Mr. Darcy had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination, or why, upon his own judgement alone, he was to determine and direct in what manner his friend was to be happy.†
Chpt 33
- The situation of your mother's family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison to that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three younger sisters, and occasionally even by your father.†
Chpt 35
- Miss Darcy, the daughter of Mr. Darcy, of Pemberley, and Lady Anne, could not have appeared with propriety in a different manner.†
Chpt 37
- On the gentlemen's appearing, her colour increased; yet she received them with tolerable ease, and with a propriety of behaviour equally free from any symptom of resentment or any unnecessary complaisance.†
Chpt 53
- Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy?†
Chpt 56
Definition:
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(propriety) socially correct or appropriate behavior