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Webster 1913 Edition
Decorous
Dec′or-ous
(dĕk′ō̍r-ŭs or dē̍-kō′rŭs; 277)
, Adj.
Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting;
– as, a
decorous
speech; decorous
behavior; a decorous
dress for a judge.De-co′rous-ly
, adv.
De-co′rous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Decorous
DEC'OROUS
,Adj.
DEC'OROUS
LY,adv.
DECOR'TICATE, v.t. [L. bark.] To strip off bark; to peel; to husk; to take off the exterior coat; as, to decorticate barley.
DECOR'TICATED, pp. Stripped of bark; peeled; husked.
DECOR'TICATING, ppr. Stripping off bark or the external coat; peeling.
DECORTICA'TION, n. The act of stripping off bark or husk.
DECO'RUM, n. [L. to become.]
Definition 2025
decorous
decorous
English
Adjective
decorous (comparative more decorous, superlative most decorous)
- Marked by proper behavior.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Chapter V, Section III
- The narrow path of truth and virtue inclines neither to the right nor left, it is a straight-forward business, and they who are earnestly pursuing their road, may bound over many decorous prejudices, without leaving modesty behind.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 61,
- There came a day when the round of decorous pleasures and solemn gaieties in which Mr. Jos Sedley’s family indulged was interrupted by an event which happens in most houses.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 43
- But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, Part One, Chapter 1
- The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Chapter V, Section III
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Translations
behaving properly
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