propriety (n.)
- admissibility
- advantage
- advantageousness
- advisability
- amenities
- applicability
- appositeness
- appropriateness
- aptitude
- aptness
- auspiciousness
- becomingness
- breeding
- ceremony
- chasteness
- chastity
- civility
- clarity
- classicalism
- classicism
- clearness
- comeliness
- conformity
- convenience
- convention
- conventionalism
- conventionality
- correctitude
- correctness
- courtesy
- criticality
- custom
- decency
- decorousness
- decorum
- defensibility
- delicacy
- desirability
- dignity
- directness
- discrimination
- distinction
- ease
- elegance
- equity
- etiquette
- expedience
- expediency
- favorableness
- feasibility
- felicitousness
- felicity
- finish
- fitness
- fittingness
- flow
- fluency
- form
- formality
- fruitfulness
- genteelness
- gentility
- give-and-take
- goodness
- grace
- gracefulness
- gracility
- happiness
- health
- justice
- justification
- justness
- lawfulness
- legality
- limpidity
- lucidity
- modesty
- mores
- naturalism
- naturalness
- naturism
- neatness
- nemesis
- niceness
- normalcy
- normality
- opportuneness
- order
- orderliness
- pellucidity
- percentage
- perspicuity
- plainness
- polish
- politeness
- politesse
- pregnancy
- profit
- profitability
- properness
- propitiousness
- protocol
- prudence
- punctilio
- purity
- qualification
- realism
- refinement
- regularity
- relevance
- respectability
- restraint
- right
- righteousness
- rightfulness
- rightness
- ripeness
- ritual
- seasonableness
- sedateness
- seemliness
- shame
- simplicity
- smoothness
- straightforwardness
- suitability
- suitableness
- taste
- tastefulness
- terseness
- timeliness
- tradition
- unaffectedness
- urbanity
- usefulness
- wholesomeness
- wisdom
- worthwhileness
Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle
From her propriety.
"Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.