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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Decency \De"cen*cy\, n.; pl {Decencies}. [L. decentia, fr decens: cf F. d['e]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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: decency n 1: the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality [ant: {indecency}] 2: the quality of being polite and respectable
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