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noun, plural -ties.
1.
conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners.
2.
appropriateness to the purpose or circumstances; suitability.
3.
rightness or justness.
4.
the proprieties, the conventional standards of proper behavior; manners: to observe the proprieties.
5.
EXPANDObsolete. a property.
6.
COLLAPSEObsolete. a peculiarity or characteristic of something.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English propriete ownership, something owned, one's own nature (compare variant proprete property) < Middle French propriété < Latin proprietās peculiarity, ownership, equivalent to propri(us) proper + -etās, variant, after vowels, of -itās -ity
1425–75; late Middle English propriete ownership, something owned, one's own nature (compare variant proprete property) < Middle French propriété < Latin proprietās peculiarity, ownership, equivalent to propri(us) proper + -etās, variant, after vowels, of -itās -ity
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non·pro·pri·e·ty, noun, plural -ties.
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propriety
1456, "proper character, disposition," from O.Fr. proprieté (12c.), from L. proprietatem (nom. proprietas) "appropriateness," also "ownership" (see property). Meaning "fitness, appropriateness" is attested from 1615; sense of "conformity to good manners" is from 1782.
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