01 n. The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or …
pl.
Decencies ((#))
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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 decency is want of sense.” — Roscommon.
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That which is proper or becoming.“The external decencies of worship.” — Atterbury.“Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions.” — Milton.