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"A piece of land owned by someone; someone's property."
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"ref": "1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury",
"text": "I was fearful of giving You a very sensible Disgust, in making You seem the Propriety of one Man, when You know Yourself ordained for the Comfort and Refreshment of Multitudes.",
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"ref": "1671, Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes, page 49",
"text": "This ſweet word, I will be your God, implies, 1. Propriety, that all that is in God ſhall be ours; his love ours, his Spirit ours, his mercy ours.",
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"ref": "1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer",
"text": "I find such a pleasure, sir, in obeying your commands, that I take care to observe them without ever debating their propriety.",
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{
"ref": "1850, Edward Ralph May, Speech on African American Suffrage",
"text": "Now, if we may, with propriety, refer to the people one question, why may we not, with equal propriety, refer another?",
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"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
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"word": "правилност"
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"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
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"word": "propietat"
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"word": "rigtighed"
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"tags": [
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"word": "décence"
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"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Angemessenheit"
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"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"word": "helyénvalóság"
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"word": "megfelelőség"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "prikladnost",
"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"tags": [
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"word": "прикладност"
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"roman": "umesnost",
"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"tags": [
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"tags": [
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"word": "propriedade"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"tags": [
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"word": "decență"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uméstnostʹ",
"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "уме́стность"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "právilʹnostʹ",
"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"tags": [
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"word": "пра́вильность"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obosnóvannostʹ",
"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "обосно́ванность"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aptitud"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fitness; the quality of being appropriate",
"tags": [
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"word": "lämplighet"
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"ref": "1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 11",
"text": "Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.",
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"ref": "1922, Eugene Irving McCormac, “Administration and Patronage”, in James K. Polk: A Political Biography, Berkeley, Cali.: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 331",
"text": "With a deep sense of personal integrity and a desire to avoid everything which might impair his absolute independence, Polk declined to accept presents of more than nominal value. Shortly after his inauguration Thomas Lloyd sent him a valuable saddlehorse, but he promptly gave orders that it should be returned to the donor. Another admirer who sent a consignment of wine and other delicacies for the President's table was instructed to send a bill or to take the articles away. It soon became known that he would accept nothing of greater value than a book or a cane. The same rule applied to presents for Mrs. Polk.²⁷ The same scrupulous regard for propriety is shown in his refusal to invest in government securities a certain sum of money belonging to his nephew and ward, Marshall T. Polk.²⁸ His public policies were denounced in unmeasured terms, and his political honesty was frequently impugned, but even his enemies credited him with personal integrity and purity of character. His own personal affairs were characterized by simplicity and frugality. This fact has already been noted in the care with which he guarded against exorbitant charges at the time of his inauguration.²⁹",
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"ref": "2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.",
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"(often in the plural) Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness."
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"alt": "(blago)priličie",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "(благо)приличие"
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{
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "propietat"
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{
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"word": "sømmelighed"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "correctheid"
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"word": "geschiktheid"
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
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"word": "goede manieren"
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{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "correction"
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{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "bienséance"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "convenances"
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{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "bonnes manières"
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{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "Schicklichkeit"
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"_dis1": "0 2 1 2 3 4 7 81",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "Tugendhaftigkeit"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "Wahrhaftigkeit"
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"_dis1": "0 2 1 2 3 4 7 81",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "Redlichkeit"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
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"word": "Anstand"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "Anständigkeit"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "Form"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"word": "illem"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"word": "tisztesség"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pristojnost",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "пристојност"
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"code": "mk",
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"roman": "umesnost",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "aucityaṁ",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"word": "ഔചിത്യം"
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{
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"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"word": "honeste"
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"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "Sittlichkjeit"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "propriedade"
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"_dis1": "0 2 1 2 3 4 7 81",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"word": "cuviință"
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{
"_dis1": "0 2 1 2 3 4 7 81",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "corectitudine"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 2 1 2 3 4 7 81",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pristójnostʹ",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "присто́йность"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 2 1 2 3 4 7 81",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blagopristójnostʹ",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "благопристо́йность"
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{
"_dis1": "0 2 1 2 3 4 7 81",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "acara",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "अचर"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 2 1 2 3 4 7 81",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"tags": [
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"word": "propiedad"
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"ref": "1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer",
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"ref": "1850, Edward Ralph May, Speech on African American Suffrage",
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"ref": "1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 11",
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"ref": "1922, Eugene Irving McCormac, “Administration and Patronage”, in James K. Polk: A Political Biography, Berkeley, Cali.: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 331",
"text": "With a deep sense of personal integrity and a desire to avoid everything which might impair his absolute independence, Polk declined to accept presents of more than nominal value. Shortly after his inauguration Thomas Lloyd sent him a valuable saddlehorse, but he promptly gave orders that it should be returned to the donor. Another admirer who sent a consignment of wine and other delicacies for the President's table was instructed to send a bill or to take the articles away. It soon became known that he would accept nothing of greater value than a book or a cane. The same rule applied to presents for Mrs. Polk.²⁷ The same scrupulous regard for propriety is shown in his refusal to invest in government securities a certain sum of money belonging to his nephew and ward, Marshall T. Polk.²⁸ His public policies were denounced in unmeasured terms, and his political honesty was frequently impugned, but even his enemies credited him with personal integrity and purity of character. His own personal affairs were characterized by simplicity and frugality. This fact has already been noted in the care with which he guarded against exorbitant charges at the time of his inauguration.²⁹",
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"ref": "2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.",
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"word": "tisztesség"
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"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "aucityaṁ",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"word": "ഔചിത്യം"
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{
"code": "enm",
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"word": "honeste"
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
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],
"word": "Sittlichkjeit"
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
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"feminine"
],
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"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
"word": "cuviință"
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "correctness in behaviour and morals",
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"word": "corectitudine"
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"word": "अचर"
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