Proprieties Definition

Proprieties Sentence Examples

• This honour his official position compelled him, of course, to decline; for he sedulously observed official proprieties, and in no way gave offence to the government to which he was accredited.

• What did a country hick know about proprieties anyway?

• Johnson has frequently blamed Shakespeare for neglecting the proprieties of time and place, and for ascribing to one age or nation the manners and opinions of another.

• In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires.

• But in reality the question raised by Nestorius was not one as to the communicatio idiomatum, but simply as to the proprieties of language.