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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.