Dutch: goed (nl), juist (nl), gepast (nl), geschikt (nl).
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Hence, this border is still blurred, raising the question whether traumatic life events induce sadness/distress – which is self-evident – or depression proper and, secondly, whether sadness/distress is a precursor or pacemaker of depression.
2004, Stress, the Brain and Depression, page 24:.
Outer Mongolia, to distinguish it from Inner Mongolia, which lies nearer to China proper, revolted and declared its independence. Siberia, though it stands outside the territorial confines of Russia proper, constitutes an essentially component part.
1976, Eu-Yang Kwang, The political reconstruction of China, page 165:.
These are divided into two great families, the vipers proper (Viperidae) and the pit-vipers (Crotalidae).
1893, Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences:.
( usually postpositive ) In the strict sense within the strict definition or core (of a specified place, taxonomic order, idea, etc).
1829, James Marsh, Preliminary Essay to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Aids to Reflection those higher and peculiar attributes which constitute our proper humanity.
They have a proper saint almost for every peculiar infirmity: for poison, gouts, agues. 1624, Democritus Junior, The Anatomy of Melancholy:, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, II.1.3: