Both Uses of
impropriety
in
Jane Eyre
- He seemed to think I had committed an impropriety in proposing to accompany him unmarried: as if I had not from the first hoped to find in him a brother, and habitually regarded him as such.†
Chpt 35
- Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness.†
Chpt 37 *
Definition:
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(impropriety) behavior thought not to be proper -- such as immoral or rude behavior