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Definition
socially correct or appropriate behavior
- They do what they can; they tidy up Property and Propriety, reassure Theology and Family Pride.Chapter 20 (9% in)
- The foundations of Property and Propriety are laid bare, twin rocks; Family Pride flounders to the surface, puffing and blowing and refusing to be comforted; Theology, vaguely ascetic, gets up a nasty ground swell.Chapter 20 (7% in)
- And he greeted his future stepmother with propriety.Chapter 23 (35% in)
- Strip human intercourse of the proprieties, and is it reduced to this?Chapter 28 (24% in)
There are no more uses of "propriety" in Howards End.
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