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proper
1. Maths logic (of a relation) distinguished from a weaker relation by excluding the case where the relata are identical. For example, every set is a subset of itself, but a proper subset must exclude at least one member of the containing set
2. the parts of the Mass that vary according to the particular day or feast on which the Mass is celebrated


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Football has always caused a stir in social properness since the English came up with hooliganism in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Maybe because I was born in freedom and raised in a household of properness and had a good, solid education in many disciplines, it did not occur to me that I would ever be considered less valuable than anyone else or discriminated against simply because I was a displaced victim of war.
The ingenious hidalgo, with his long, cadaverous frame, consistently outmatched by his own wits, was perfectly placed in this setting; only a land as dry in humor and backward in concept could sustain such an epic adventure; a parody of properness when there was little of such to be found in this poor, country region--a commentary on government set in a realm governed by the laws of the landscape and little more.
 
 
 
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