Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stickler for the proprieties; a formal and precise person.

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Examples

  • I should like to put my savings into a proprietarian investment, and retire in the meanwhile into a communistic retreat, which is double-dealing.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.

    Attack the System 2009

  • Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.

    Attack the System 2009

  • Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.

    Attack the System 2009

  • The "non-force" force of proprietarian politicians doesn't interest me, and neither do vid's "voluntary" taxes.

    Cafe Hayek 2008

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  • “Then there's the conflict between the ethno-preservationist national-anarchists and the anti-racist left-anarchists, and between the proprietarian anarchists and the communal anarchists.” --from the Examples.

    February 25, 2013