OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19025

propriety

/pɹəˈpɹaɪəti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
procedencia • propiedad • propriedad
Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness.
Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her.
Miss Griffin was a model of propriety, and I am at a loss to imagine what the feelings of the virtuous woman would have been, if she had known, when she paraded us down the Hampste…
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