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Definition
socially correct or appropriate behavior
- I had heard much of the systematic method of English education, and I was very desirous that my dear Mary should steer straight in the midst of so much propriety.37 — A Visit To England (32% in)
There are no more uses of "propriety" in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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