Think’st this will prove a matter worth the carriage.
Sir J. Harington, Epigrams, ii. 98.
Aristogiton the sycophant, or false promoter, was condemned to death for troubling men with wrongful imputations.—Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, p. 421.
His eyes be promoters, some trespass to spy.
Tusser, Of an envious and haughty Neighbour.
Promoters be those which in popular and penal actions do defer the names or complain of offenders, having part of the profit for their reward.—Cowell, The Interpreter, s. v.
Covetousness and promotion and such like are that right hand and right eye which must be cut off and plucked out, that the whole man perish not.—Tyndale, Exposition of the Sixth Chap. of Matthew.
Propriety. All ‘propriety’ is now mental or moral; where material things are concerned, we employ ‘property,’ at the first no more than a different spelling or slightly different form of the same word.
But some man haply will say, That where private propriety is in place, public community is turned out of doors. Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, p. 680.
He [the good servant] provides good bounds and sufficient fences betwixt his own and his master’s estate (Jacob, Gen. xxx. 36, set his flock three days’ journey from Laban’s), that no quarrel may arise about their propriety, nor suspicion that his remnant hath eaten up his master’s whole cloth.—Fuller, The Holy State, b. i. c. 8.