proprietorial

Modifies a noun

• interest: At Wesley's Chapel we have proprietorial interest in these matters.
• attitude: Unable to prevent cremation, the churches adopted a proprietorial attitude.
• pride: He's standing on the cricket square right now, gazing at this unremarkable patch of turf with a quaint and proprietorial pride.
• system: It facilitates innovation and creativity and is often contrasted with the staid nature of invention in proprietorial systems such as Microsoft.
• claim: The case also makes clear that patients have ' no proprietorial claim ' to anonymised data and so no right to control their use.