Meaning of Properness | Babel Free

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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