All 4 Uses
propriety
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Howards End
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- 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.†
Part 20
- They do what they can; they tidy up Property and Propriety, reassure Theology and Family Pride.†
Part 20 *
- And he greeted his future stepmother with propriety.†
Part 23
- Strip human intercourse of the proprieties, and is it reduced to this?†
Part 28proprieties = socially correct or appropriate behavior
Definitions:
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(1)
(propriety) socially correct or appropriate behavior
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)