properness

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈpɹɒ.pə.nəs/

Noun

uncountable usually obsolete

The state or condition of being proper; propriety. / (mathematics) The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.). / (obsolete) Excellence, quality.

Japanese Meaning

適切である状態、正しさ、相応性。 / 数学における適正な状態（例：proper fraction, proper subsetなどで使われる性質）。 / （古語で）卓越性、品質、上品さ。

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The properness of his attire became a topic of conversation at the formal dinner.

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彼の服装の適切さが正式な晩餐会で話題になった。

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Sense（1）

The state or condition of being proper; propriety.

The kind of women who put papers on shelves and had little towels like that instinctively distrusted and disliked Mack and the boys. Such women knew that they were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness.

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Sense（2）

(mathematics) The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.).

Sense（3）

(obsolete) Excellence, quality.

, II.3.2:

Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits […] betook himself to his beads, and by those means got more honour than ever he should have done with the use of his limbs and properness of person […]

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propernesses

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