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English Dictionary: decency by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
decency
n
  1. the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality
    Antonym(s): indecency
  2. the quality of being polite and respectable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Decency \De"cen*cy\, n.; pl. {Decencies}. [L. decentia, fr.
      decens: cf. F. d[82]cence. See {Decent}.]
      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
                     decency is want of sense.                  --Roscommon.
  
      2. 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.
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