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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得体的举止；有分寸的行为
    • Nobody questioned the propriety of her being there alone.没人认为她只身出现在那里不得体。🔊🔊
    opposite impropriety
  2. the proprieties
     [plural] the rules of correct behaviour行为规范；礼节；规矩 synonym etiquette
    • They were careful to observe the proprieties.他们恪守规矩。🔊🔊
    • The company had acted in accordance with all legal proprieties.该公司已按照所有法律规定行事。
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘peculiarity, essential quality’): from Old French propriete, from Latin proprietas, from proprius ‘one's own, particular’.