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Webster 1913 Edition
Decency
1.
The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
Observances of time, place, and of
decency
in general. Burke.
Immodest words admit of no defense,
For want of
For want of
decency
is want of sense. Roscommon.
2.
That which is proper or becoming.
The external
decencies
of worship. Atterbury.
Those thousand
From all her words and actions.
decencies
, that daily flowFrom all her words and actions.
Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Decency
DE'CENCY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
decency
decency
English
Noun
decency (countable and uncountable, plural decencies)
- the quality of being decent; propriety
- Burke
- Observances of time, place, and of decency in general.
- Roscommon
- Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.
- Burke
- That which is proper or becoming.
- Atterbury
- The external decencies of worship.
- Milton
- Those thousand decencies, that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
- Atterbury
Translations
quality of being decent