Word Finder - propriety

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The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.

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A characteristic; an attribute.

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A piece of land owned by someone; someone's property.

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More generally, something owned by someone; a possession.

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The fact of possessing something; ownership.

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Correct language or pronunciation.

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Suitability, fitness; the quality of being appropriate.

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(often in the plural) Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness.

The propriety of this extended use is open to question and is denied by some logicians.

They broke the chain of authority, without, however, recognizing the propriety of toleration.

He usually dressed in black, with unobtrusive propriety.

The Local Government Board must make inquiry into the propriety of allowing the lands to be taken, and the power to acquire the lands compulsorily can only be conferred by means of a provisional order confirmed by parliament.

They refuted him easily on many specific points, but carefully abstained from discussing the real question, at issue, namely the propriety of free inquiry.

Then the awkwardness of his silent position hiding in the darkness extended beyond the point of propriety of making his presence known.

The conservatory may also with great propriety be placed in the flower garden, where it may occupy an elevated terrace, and form the termination of one of the more important walks.

Afterwards all four states, with several others, accepted the invitation of Austria to consider the propriety of re-establishing the Confederation.

By assuming suitable forms of the characteristic equation to represent the variations of the specific volume within certain limits of pressure and temperature, we may therefore with propriety deduce equations to represent the saturation-pressure, which will certainly be thermodynamically consistent, and will probably give correct numerical results within the assigned limits.

This is of course a physical assumption whose propriety is justified solely by experience.

Abandoning any thought of propriety, she ran down the path to meet him.

We had no reason to doubt the propriety of the Respondents ' change of mind.

Obtaining good value for money and maintaining propriety are key requirements from any procurement function.

Sense of Propriety - You don't have to be prudish to simply feel that some things are appropriate and occasionally downright offensive.

Certain zodiac signs will also be put off by Virgo's strong need for order and propriety, characteristics that are often interpreted as rigidity.

The political trials over which he presided, although they gave rise to numerous accusations against him, were conducted with singular fairness and propriety.

One question on which great contention arose was as to the propriety of applying to the Divine nature attributes which belonged to the human nature - e.g.

It must be " tried by the laws of decency and propriety."

The greatest variety of episodical matter is thus introduced; but the propriety of the occasion and the mode of introduction are such that no complaint can be made; the episodes never entangle, encumber or even unpleasantly interrupt the main narrative.

The promotion was entirely the act of Lord Melbourne, an amateur in theology, who had read Thirlwall's introduction to Schleiermacher, and satisfied himself of the propriety of the appointment.

In the first degree there is a strong persuasion of the propriety of the impression made; the second and third degrees are produced by comparisons of the impression with others associated with it, and an analysis of itself.

John's son and successor, John Frederick the Magnanimous, who became elector in 1532, might with equal propriety have been surnamed the Unfortunate.

In especial he vindicates the propriety of resistance to kingly oppression or misrule, upholds the existence of an hereditary nobility interested in their country's good as the firmest barrier against such oppression, and maintains the authority of parliaments.

It has no attributes of any kind; it is being without magnitude, without life, without thought; in strict propriety, indeed, we ought not to speak of it as existing; it is " above existence," " above goodness."

Our direct sympathy with the agent in the circumstances in which he is placed gives rise, according to this view, to our notion of the propriety of his action, whilst our indirect sympathy with those whom his actions have benefited or injured gives rise to our notions of merit and demerit in the agent himself.

He thinks the public at large may with propriety not only facilitate and encourage, but even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the acquisition in youth of the most essential elements of education.

The Wycliffite authorship of the Commentaries on the Gospels, on which the learned editors base their argument, is, however, unsupported by any evidence beyond the fact that the writer of the Prologue to Matthew urges in strong language " the propriety of translating Scripture for the use of the laity."

As illustrating this process Father Braun (p. 170) cites an interesting correspondence between Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury and John of Avranches, archbishop of Rouen, as to the propriety of a bishop wearing a chasuble at the consecration of a church, Lanfranc maintaining as an established principle that the vestment should be reserved for the Mass.

The king is a hero of the chivalric type common in contemporary romance; freedom is a "noble thing" to be sought and won at all costs; the opponents of such freedom are shown in the dark colours which history and poetic propriety require; but there is none of the complacency of the merely provincial habit of mind.

These, however, may with propriety be regarded as but different names for the same pigmentary substance, the variations in the character of which are attributable to the different modes in which the pigments are manufactured.

Forged letters, purporting to show his desire to abandon the revolutionary struggle, were published; he was accused of drawing more than his salary; his manners were ridiculed as "aping monarchy"; hints of the propriety of a guillotine for his benefit began to appear; he was spoken of as the "stepfather of his country."

His character and life were such as to suggest the propriety of canonization, but hostile influences have defeated every move in that direction.

If the view of the satirist is owing to this circumstance more limited in some directions, and his taste and temper less conformable to the best ancient standards of propriety, he is also saved by it from prejudices to which the traditions of his class exposed the historian.

Then he wept and mourned beyond what seemed to his other followers the bounds of propriety, exclaiming that Heaven was destroying him.

From the sentiments of propriety and admiration we proceed to the sense of merit and demerit.

The Whig ministry, then slowly but surely losing the support of the country, were divided in opinion as to the propriety of prosecuting this zealous parson.

The sense-manifold is not to be conceived as having, per se, any of the qualities of objects as actually cognized; its parts are not cognizable per se, nor can it with propriety be said to be received successively or simultaneously.

Propriety became trivial when one was drinking blood; and enjoying it.

We can turn to our dumb-looking neighbor and ask with perfect propriety, " Have you been to the exhibition of Japanese basketwork?

They combine filial obedience and propriety with a steadfast resolve to take no real notice of parental disapproval of her unlikely but successful match.

Now may we be convinced of the propriety of applying the epithet " good " to humility or piety toward God.

This is a basic criteria for all client accounts to ensure the utmost propriety in completion of our role.

This article considers the propriety of inventing a third category of public policy.

Some people question the propriety of having editors on the Commission at all.

What if there is no space for the Bogside even yet within existing constitutional propriety?

According to strict propriety of speech, he never entered into it at all.

The Conservative party has lately been annexing the state of sexual propriety, as a core step on the 20-year path back to power.

His role, however, is to focus on financial propriety rather than political propriety, which are very different things.

And, last, ' genius ' means a betrayal of gender propriety too.

Adultery however is not so much depicted as a moral wrongdoing but rather as a breach of propriety.