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Definition of Properest
1. proper [adj] - See also: proper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Properest
Literary usage of Properest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1847)
"I have no other motive for wishing him a preference, than that I think him the
properest person that has come under my notice, provided all matters before ..."
2. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"... he thought it properest to drop them all, as not expecting he should Uve long
enough to finish whatever he should begin; and that, if he did finish any ..."
3. The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North from 1768 to 1783 by George (1867)
"... conversations with them, I should be the properest bearer of such a message.
This, according to my memory of it, is'the sum of what hath passed. ..."
4. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1907)
"The properest Persons to be Promoted, Vizt: John Merrick, Lieut.' Alex'r Duncan,
Quarter Mast'r. John Burgwin, Corn't John Paine, Clerk. ..."
5. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"And the properest dress for them," returned the admiral ; " who wants any clothes
in such a climate as this?"— Johnston, t'hrt/sal, ii. 235. ..."
6. International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin and American Process by Frederick J Harrison, W I Scandlin (1899)
""WHICH IS THE properest THING TO DO?" By Geo. G. Rockwood, New York. An old
discussion is on again which is expressed in the title of the old song, ..."
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