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Webster 1913 Edition
Properness
Prop′er-ness
,Noun.
1.
The quality of being proper.
2.
Tallness; comeliness.
[Obs.]
Udall.
Webster 1828 Edition
Properness
PROP'ERNESS
,Noun.
1.
Tallness. [Not in use.]2.
Perfect form; handsomeness.Definition 2024
properness
properness
English
Noun
properness (usually uncountable, plural propernesses)
- 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.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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 […]
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.2: