Both Uses
propriety
in
The Brothers Karamazov
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- Propriety requires you to go to the Father Superior, Pyotr Alexandrovitch, to apologize for the disturbance we've been making....†
Chpt 2
- And though he was told she was an idiot, he pronounced that for a young woman of twenty to wander about in nothing but a smock was a breach of the proprieties, and must not occur again.†
Chpt 3 *proprieties = socially correct or appropriate behavior
Definitions:
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(1)
(propriety) socially correct or appropriate behavior
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)