proprietousness

English

Etymology

From proprietous +‎ -ness.

Noun

proprietousness (uncountable)

1. (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

properness — see properness