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Proper

adjective

Marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness. "Proper manners"

Having all the qualities typical of the thing specified. "He finally has a proper job"

Limited to the thing specified. "His claim is connected with the deed proper"

Appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs. Synonym: right. "The right man for the job" , "She is not suitable for the position"

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"Proper" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mary,' she said, in her decisive way. 'It's perfectly proper for me to stay under the protection ...

— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe

... to be some doubt about his proper title. Some called him "Monseigneur," some "Monsieur," and some even "My shoe" and ...

— Punch, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 • Francis Burnand

... classical books were followed in such a manner as to impress boys with their beauties, and with the grand simplicity of their statement of the everlasting problems of human life, instead of with their verbal and grammatical peculiarities; I still think it as little proper that they should form the basis of a liberal education for our contemporaries, as I should think it fitting to make that sort of palaeontology with which I am familiar the back-bone ...

— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley

... life Diderot was blessed with that divine gift of pity, which one that has it could hardly be willing to barter for the understanding of an Aristotle. Nor was it of the sentimental type proper for fine ladies. One of his friends had an aversion for women with child. "What monstrous sentiment!" Diderot wrote; "for my part, that condition has always touched me. I cannot see a woman of the common people so, without a tender commiseration."[8] And Diderot ...

— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley

... or twenty feet from the boat. A line from the bow and stern of the boat connected it with a single block which ran on the cable. When ready to start, the bow-line was hauled taut, the stern line slacked off to the proper angle, when, the current passing against the side of the boat, it was propelled across very rapidly. The river here was rapid, the water cold and deep, ...

— In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 • Gilbert L. Cole

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