proprietousness
English edit
Etymology edit
From proprietous + -ness.
Noun edit
proprietousness (uncountable)
- (rare) The state of being proprietous or proper; properness
- 1988, Craig Martin Buckwald, Transforming Vision: The Authority of Romantic Nature in the Fiction of James Joyce, Volume 2[1], page 447:
- The inappropriate disapproval of this infantile innocence by the virginal proprietousness of a Gerty MacDowell--another prudish character whose nature proves irrepressible--is seen in the final image...
Translations edit
properness — see properness