Propriety vs Uprightness - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.
(obsolete) A characteristic; an attribute.
(obsolete) More generally, something owned by someone; a possession.
* 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
The fact of possessing something; ownership.
Suitability, fitness; the quality of being appropriate.
* 1773 ,
* 1850 ,
Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness.
* 1811 , (Jane Austen), :
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(uncountable) The state of being moral, honest and honourable.
(uncountable) The state of being erect, or vertical.
(countable) The result or product of being upright.
As nouns the difference between propriety and uprightness
is that propriety is the particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality while uprightness is the state of being moral, honest and honourable.propriety
English
Noun
- 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 .
- I find such a pleasure, sir, in obeying your commands, that I take care to observe them without ever debating their propriety .
- Now, if we may, with propriety', refer to the people one question, why may we not, with equal ' propriety , refer another?
- 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.
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References
*"Propriety" at Dictionary.com