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Definition of Properly

1. Adverb. In the right manner. "Can't you carry me decent?"

Definition of Properly

1. adv. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.

Definition of Properly

1. Adverb. in a proper manner ¹

2. Adverb. (obsolete) individually; in one's own manner ¹

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Definition of Properly

1. proper [adv] - See also: proper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Properly

Literary usage of Properly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The qualification "unwritten" is, therefore, quite properly given to such law. In their origin, indeed, legislative enactments and judicial pronouncements ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In the paper mentioned Euler first gave the first necessary condition (known as "Euler's condition," or less properly as *Lagrange's condition") in its ..."

3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"THIRD BOOK INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON MANNERS, properly SO CALLED CHAPTER I That Manners Are Softened as Social Conditions Become More Equal WE perceive that ..."

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