properness

From proper +‎ -ness.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒ.pə.nəs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒ.pɚ.nəs/

properness (usually uncountable, plural propernesses)

1. The state or condition of being proper; propriety.
2. (mathematics) The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.).
3. (obsolete) Excellence, quality.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):

     , II.3.2:

     Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits […] betook himself to his beads, and by those means got more honour than ever he should have done with the use of his limbs and properness of person […]