Meanings
nounproprietousness (uncountable)
- rareuncountableThe state of being proprietous or proper; properness
The inappropriate disapproval of this infantile innocence by the virginal proprietousness of a Gerty MacDowell--another prudish character whose nature proves irrepressible--is seen in the final image...
1988, Craig Martin Buckwald, Transforming Vision: The Authority of Romantic Nature in the Fiction of James Joyce, Volume 2, page 447
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