Noun

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline

I have been watching that show with regularity .

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, year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=For Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas, this was his most sobering moment in the Premier League and he looked stunned on the sidelines at the regularity with which Chelsea's defence was exposed.}}

(countable) A particular regular occurrence

Noun

(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 :

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 .

The fact of possessing something; ownership.

Suitability, fitness; the quality of being appropriate.

* 1773 ,

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

* 1850 ,

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

Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness.

* 1811 , (Jane Austen), :

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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, year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=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.}}