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单词 propriety
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propriety

noun
/prəˈpraɪəti/
/prəˈpraɪəti/
(formal)
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  1. [uncountable] moral and social behaviour that is considered to be correct and acceptable
    • Nobody questioned the propriety of her being there alone.
    opposite impropriety
  2. the proprieties
    [plural] the rules of correct behaviour synonym etiquette
    • They were careful to observe the proprieties.
    • The company had acted in accordance with all legal proprieties.
  3. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘peculiarity, essential quality’): from Old French propriete, from Latin proprietas, from proprius ‘one's own, particular’.
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