proprietyとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpɹaɪəti/
• 韻: -aɪɪti

名詞

propriety (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 proprieties)

1. (obsolete) The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality. [15th-20th c.]
2. (obsolete) A characteristic; an attribute. [15th-20th c.]
3. (now まれに) A piece of land owned by someone; someone's property. [from 16th c.]
4. (obsolete) More generally, something owned by someone; a possession. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury:

     I was fearful of giving You a very sensible Disgust, in making You seem the Propriety of one Man, when You know Yourself ordained for the Comfort and Refreshment of Multitudes.

5. The fact of possessing something; ownership. [from 16th c.]
6. (now まれに) Correct language or pronunciation. [from 17th c.]
7. Suitability, fitness; the quality of being appropriate. [from 18th c.]
   • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

     I find such a pleasure, sir, in obeying your commands, that I take care to observe them without ever debating their propriety.

   • 1850, Edward Ralph May, "Speech on African American Suffrage"

     Now, if we may, with propriety, refer to the people one question, why may we not, with equal propriety, refer another?

8. Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness. [from 19th c.]
   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 12:

     Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

     Miss Griffin was a model of propriety, and I am at a loss to imagine what the feelings of the virtuous woman would have been, if she had known, when she paraded us down the Hampstead Road two and two, that she was walking with a stately step at the head of Polygamy and Mahomedanism.

   • 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.

関連する語

• proper

参照

• "Propriety" at Dictionary.com