I recommend you search the online text :-)
I searched for every instance of the word propriety in the online text of Pride and Prejudice on this web site.
There were 8 returns for that word, and 3 others for the word impropriety.
Pride and Prejudice - Chapter 6
beg for a partner.''mr. darcy with grave propriety requested to be allowed the honour of he
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it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety.''``to yield readily -- easily -
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necessity rather than of choice -- a sacrifice to propriety, not a pleasure to himself. he seldom ap
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not see what right mr. darcy had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination, or why, upo
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, was nothing in comparison of that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly, betr
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resh in her memory. she was now struck with the impropriety of such communications to a stranger, an
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rley, and lady anne, could not have appeared with propriety in a different manner. -- i am excessive
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elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her father's behaviour as a husband.
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re; she remembered its warmth, and softened its impropriety of expression.when all of the ho
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she received them with tolerable ease, and with a propriety of behaviour equally free from any sympt
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miss de bourgh? are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy? have you not heard me say
In addition, I searched for the word proper, which would also gather results for the word improper, and properly (and property). There were 18 returns.
Pride and Prejudice - Chapter 6
r, sir.''``do you not think it would be a proper compliment to the place?''``it is a
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s in the closets up stairs.``that is all very proper and civil i am sure,'' said mrs. bennet, ``
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tation, and, if he did, whether he would think it proper to join in the evening's amusement; and she
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ver change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.''``may i ask to what th
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marry. a clergyman like you must marry. -- chuse properly, chuse a gentlewoman for my sake; and for
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at st. james's. the whole family, in short, were properly overjoyed on the occasion. the younger gi
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ontempt, on that easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution which now made him the slave of
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ll do for him very well. she will make him a very proper wife.''mr. collins and charlotte we
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troduction should be her's, it was performed in a proper manner, without any of those apologies and
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r>the invitation was accepted of course, and at a proper hour they joined the party in lady catherin
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men travelling post by themselves. it is highly improper. you must contrive to send somebody. i have
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gain applied to, could readily answer, and with a proper air of indifference, that she had not reall
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ely give directions to haggerston for preparing a proper settlement. there will not be the smallest
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n to be her husband might then have rested in its proper place.he was seriously concerned that a
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judge your father to be a person whom he could so properly consult as your uncle, and therefore read
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y believe it. you thought me then devoid of every proper feeling, i am sure you did. the turn of you
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ars in her eyes, ``i love him. indeed he has no improper pride. he is perfectly amiable. you do not
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the influence of lydia's example, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable,
I also searched for this partial word – respectab because being respectable and having social respectability what was what life was all about back then. I got 17 results.
Pride and Prejudice - Chapter 7
he business, and a brother settled in london in a respectable line of trade.the village of l
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nt to enter the ----shire. i knew it to be a most respectable, agreeable corps, and my friend denny
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f this kind, given by a young man of character to respectable people, can have any evil tendency; an
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ell as his sister's, mr. wickham is by no means a respectable young man. i am afraid he has been ver
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t kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. i would rather be paid the compli
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this is not fair. you wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if i speak ill of any bo
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imself. to work in his garden was one of his most respectable pleasures; and elizabeth admired the c
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ies which mr. darcy himself need not disdain, and respectability which he will probably never reach.
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oubted veracity. mr. wickham is the son of a very respectable man, who had for many years the manage
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, which i am now complaining. our importance, our respectability in the world, must be affected by t
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h rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable
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ing where she was.the housekeeper came; a respectable-looking, elderly woman, much less fine
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s four years old, and whose own manners indicated respectability, was not to be hastily rejected. ne
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yself sincerely sympathise with you, and all your respectable family, in your present distress, whic
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m the same noble line; and, on the father's, from respectable, honourable, and ancient -- though unt
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lizzy. i know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husban
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themselves, and meanly of others. they were of a respectable family in the north of england; a circ
Back then, having a very high social standing (and the money to go with it) was sort of today’s equivalent of fame.
This is why propriety was so important. If your family’s behavior was considered improper, then your social status suffered for it, and your family – and therefore you - became the object of contempt and ridicule.
- Jane almost missed out on being married to Mr. Bingley because of family impropriety.
- Lady Catherine was furious at the thought of Mr. Darcy marrying Elizabeth because of the impropriety of her family. Lady C. said Elizabeth would “pollute” Pemberley, and no one in the family would even speak her name!
- Darcy sacrificed a whole year’s income for the sake of propriety - in bribing Wickham to marry Lydia.
- Mr. Collins, in the book, is a great example of the judgmentalism that they lived under back then. You see it well in his letter in chapter 48, concerning Lydia’s “fallen” state. “The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this.” Mr. Collins obviously lacks tact or feeling when he says this. He is very much like Star Trek’s Mr. Spock in this way, but what he says is a true reflection of the way their society looked at social propriety and impropriety. It would be better if she were dead, than to have the family suffer the shame of her behavior.
You may get some other ideas as you browse through the search results.
I recommend you do the searches yourself.
Click on the link and read the context.
I’m sure it will help.