All 8 Uses of
propriety
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Mr. Darcy, with grave propriety, requested to be allowed the honor of her hand, but in vain.†
p. 27.3 *
- Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representation, you must remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and the delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favor of its propriety.†
p. 49.1
- It could not be for society, as he frequently sat there ten minutes together without opening his lips; and when he did speak, it seemed the effect of necessity rather than of choice—a sacrifice to propriety, not a pleasure to himself.†
p. 176.5
- I do not see what right Mr. Darcy had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination, or why, upon his own judgement alone, he was to determine and direct in what manner his friend was to be happy.†
p. 181.7
- The situation of your mother's family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison to that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three younger sisters, and occasionally even by your father.†
p. 193.1
- Miss Darcy, the daughter of Mr. Darcy, of Pemberley, and Lady Anne, could not have appeared with propriety in a different manner.†
p. 205.9
- On the gentlemen's appearing, her color increased; yet she received them with tolerable ease, and with a propriety of behavior equally free from any symptom of resentment or any unnecessary complaisance.†
p. 316.8
- Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy?†
p. 336.2
Definition:
socially correct or appropriate behavior