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What does properness mean?

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Noun
  1. The state or condition of being proper; propriety.
  2. (mathematics) The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.).
  3. (obsolete) Excellence, quality.
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Over the past month that they had been married, she'd learned the hard way what the rules of properness were, especially for married women.
Similarly, the fitness and properness of managers are factors in bank authorisations, meaning that business ethics are necessarily built into corporate values.
In order to achieve our work safety objectives, to ensure properness of employed methods and continuity of ongoing applications.
The woman across the table was just as fearful, but kept herself under a mask-a mask of civilization hiding wild eyes, properness hiding tensed muscles, ready to spring.
The result is a modernist rendition of old-school perfumes with a vintage ladylike properness to it.
Review and properness of the document of synthesis.

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