in proper

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English

Prepositional phrase

in proper

  1. (obsolete) Individually; privately.
    • 1651, Jer Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. , 2nd edition, London: Francis Ashe , →OCLC:
      the princes found they could not have that in proper which God made to be common