Properness

Definitions

1. The state or condition of being proper; propriety.
   uncountable, usually
2. The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.).
   uncountable, usually
3. Excellence, quality.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“The kind of women who put⟳ papers on shelves and had little towels like⟳ that instinctively distrusted and disliked Mack and the boys. Such women knew that they were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order⟳, and properness.”

“Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits […] betook himself to his beads, and by those means got more honour than ever he should have⟳ done with the use⟳ of his limbs and properness of person […]”

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