Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
A standard of appropriateness drawn from classical models and nature. Often equated with social custom, good sense and reason. Also associated with propriety, good taste, and manners.
Proper order, etiquette and conduct of members during a floor session.
propriety in manners and conduct
Appropriate behavior and conduct.
Appropriateness of behavior or conduct.
behaviour in keeping with good taste and propriety
Conventions in matching a subject of an artwork to a style or tone appropriate to it. A kind of etiquette expected in the treatment of an artwork's content.
The appropriate adherence to traditional poetic form and content.
In classical rhetoric, the principle of decorum controlled what was appropriate to each of the main styles into which Hellenistic and Latin rhetors had divided written literature: the grand style, the middle style and the low (or plain) style. Certain types of vocabulary and diction were considered appropriate for certain stylistic levels. This principle of decorum was an influential concept even in the looser rescripts of Romanticism.