All 3 Uses of
propriety
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- A question was once, somehow or other, started between Collins and me, of the propriety of educating the female sex in learning, and their abilities for study.†
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- Another thing demonstrated will be the propriety of everyman's waiting for his time for appearing upon the stage of the world.†
- Tho' I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia.†
Definition:
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(propriety) socially correct or appropriate behavior