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proprietarian nonce-wd.|prəʊpraɪɪˈtɛərɪən| [In sense 1, f. as proprietary + -an; in sense 2, f. propriety + -arian, as in necessitarian, etc.] †1. ? An advocate or supporter of proprietary government in the N. American colonies. Obs.
1776J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 411 The quakers and proprietarians together have little weight. 2. A stickler for propriety.
1866Howells Venet. Life xx, The Conversazioni of the rigid proprietarians where people sit down to a kind of hopeless whist..and say nothing. |