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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
propriety/prəˈprʌɪəti/

▶noun (pl. proprieties) correctness concerning standards of behaviour or morals.

■ (proprieties) the details or rules of conventionally accepted behaviour.

■ appropriateness; rightness.

– origin ME: from OFr. propriete, from L. proprietas (see property).

'propriety' also found in these Oxford entries:

convenance - decorous - decorum - indecent - indecorous - indecorum - Mrs Grundy - scandalize - scruple - seemly

Forum discussions with the word(s) "propriety" in the title:

easily revealable and exhausted propriety
Jane Austen's 'propriety'
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