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His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."

From Time Magazine Archive

To secure such respectabilities in death he passed a most respectable life, a more respectable-looking individual never was seen.

From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Seccombe, Thomas

He was in point of fact the soul of sobriety and the mirror of all the respectabilities in his serious dissenting world.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel

Society is not so very exacting, but it revenges itself on people who defy the respectabilities.

From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

The relation of the village respectabilities to the county families, the relation of the county families to the great ducal magnate, are all given with curious precision and subtle discrimination.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic