All 4 Uses of
propriety
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Funerals were always conducted with peculiar propriety in the Dodson family: the hat-bands were never of a blue shade, the gloves never split at the thumb, everybody was a mourner who ought to be, and there were always scarfs for the bearers.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- That was fortunate in some respects, as laborers might be too ignorant to understand the propriety of her wanting to go to Dunlow Common; yet it would have been better if she could have met some one who would tell her the way without wanting to know anything about her private business.†
Chpt 1.11
- The Dodsons were a very proud race, and their pride lay in the utter frustration of all desire to tax them with a breach of traditional duty or propriety.†
Chpt 4.1
- Would he be so lost to propriety as to marry her before the year was out?†
Chpt 7.4
Definition:
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(propriety) socially correct or appropriate behavior