单词	propriety
释义	proprietypro‧pri‧e‧ty /prəˈpraɪəti/ noun formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINpropriety Origin: 1500-1600 French propriété ‘property, quality’, from Latin proprietas; ➔ PROPERTY Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Kids today have no sense of propriety. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A case can be made for both its constitutional propriety and its administrative efficiency. Are Charles and I really so susceptible to propriety, to the conventional? But the residents are inordinately preoccupied with propriety, and nothing at all is funny. Religions classically struggle with this same divided consciousness about order and chaos, balance and exuberance, propriety and spontaneity. They, or at least the Quakers who lived in our town, had become paragons of propriety. 1[singular, uncountable] correctness of social or moral behaviour OPP  improprietypropriety of They discussed the propriety of treating ill children against the wishes of the parents.with propriety They conducted themselves with propriety.2the proprieties especially British English the accepted rules of correct social behaviour:  strict in observing the proprieties
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