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n. used primarily as eating apples
adj. indicating the most important performer or role
Word Usage
"Ross thinks that duty proper, as he calls it, is a quite different sort of thing from a prima facie duty; the notion of ˜duty™ in ˜prima facie duty™ is a different notion from that in ˜duty proper™."