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Definition of Properly
Properly

In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.

Individually; after one's own manner.

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Properly Quotations

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mohandas Gandhi

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.
Rene Auberjonois

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin Disraeli

Properly Translations

properly in Dutch is netjes, naar behoren, behoorlijk
properly in French is convenablement
properly in German is echt, geeignet, passend, geeignet
properly in Latin is decens; decenter, honeste, ordine; ordinem
properly in Portuguese is corretamente
properly in Spanish is correctamente
properly in Swedish is ordentligt


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