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proprietous, a.|prəʊˈpraɪɪtəs|
[f. propriety + -ous.]
Characterized by (extreme) propriety or punctilious behaviour. Also Comb. Hence proˈprietously adv.
1844Ainsworth's Mag. VI. 228 An elderly person, whose proprietous grey silk dress..conveyed the idea of a distant relative. 1845Ibid. VII. 498 The rows of canvass-covered proprietous-looking [bathing] machines. 1882‘L. Malet’ Mrs. Lorimer I. v. 120 My dear, I feel a little stifled when I think of you guarded by these proprietous and unimaginative dragons. Ibid. vi. 132 Mrs. Mainwaring had lost for a moment that proprietous self-command and calm dignity of demeanour, which..were certainly liable to keep most people at a very respectful distance from her. 1913D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers viii. 181 He must see a girl home from the skating rink—quite proprietously—and so can't get home. 1974R. B. Parker Godwulf MS i. 9 The elevator that took me to the fourth floor was covered with obscene graffiti that some proprietous soul had tried to doctor into acceptability. 1979Verbatim Autumn 1/1 In Marvin Pope's exhaustive scholarly study of The Song of Songs, the Bride's vivid description of her passion for the Bridegroom as ‘my bowels were moved for him’—striking in its proprietous King James context (5:4)—is rendered ‘my inwards seethed for him.’ |