Convenance, rapport de ce qui se dit ou se fait, avec ce qui est dű aux personnes, ŕ l'âge, au sexe, ŕ la condition, et avec les usages reçus, les moeurs publiques, le temps, le lieu, etc.
ETYM Latin decôrum, from decôrus. Related to Decorous.
Propriety in manners and conduct; SYN. decorousness.
Term derived from classical criticism meaning the proper or appropriate combination of elements within a work of art. Its later advocates believed that there was a “correct” style for each genre: grandiloquent for tragedy, low for comedy, and so on, and that these styles should never be mixed.
ETYM French propriété, Latin proprietas, from proprius one's own, proper. Related to Property, Proper.
Correct or appropriate behavior; SYN. properness, correctitude.