Propriety is following what is socially acceptable in speech and behavior. If you are someone who cares about always doing the right and proper thing, your friends might accuse you of being obsessed with propriety and beg you to loosen up.
Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.
Noun
correct or appropriate behavior
n.
Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal
title; property.
n.
That which is proper or peculiar; an inherent property
or quality; peculiarity.
n.
The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an
acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established
principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety
of behavior, language, manners, etc.
Propriety
So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord, and yet all are for her provisions, it being a part of his need to refresh and supply hers.2.
We find no mention hereof in ancient zo'94graphers, . . . who seldom forget proprieties of such a nature.3.
Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.
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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
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