PROPERNESS
propriety, properness, correctitude
(noun) correct or appropriate behavior
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
properness (usually uncountable, plural propernesses)
The state or condition of being proper; propriety.
(mathematics) The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.).
(obsolete) Excellence, quality.
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 […]
Source: Wiktionary
Prop"er*ness, n.
1. The quality of being proper.
2. Tallness; comeliness. [Obs.] Udall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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