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Definition of Decency
1. Noun. The quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality.
Specialized synonyms: Modestness, Modesty
Derivative terms: Decent, Decent, Decent
Antonyms: Indecency
2. Noun. The quality of being polite and respectable.
Definition of Decency
1. n. 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.
Definition of Decency
1. Noun. the quality of being decent; propriety ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decency
1. the state of being decent [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decency
Literary usage of Decency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"As the beauty of the tooly is decency concomitant to virtue. As beauty body always
accompanies the health of it, so cer- of body, with an agreeable carriage ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"A civil marriage does not give rise to this impediment (SCC, 17 March, 1879),
nor does public decency beget a second impediment prejudicial to a former ..."
3. The British Essayists;: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"Tully says, virtue and decency are so nearly related, that it is difficult to
separate them from each other but in our imagination. ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1853)
"To confound the order of seasons and climates,* to sport with the passions and
prejudices of his subjects, and to subvert every law of nature and decency, ..."
5. The Law of Criminal Conspiracies and Agreements by Robert Samuel Wright, Hampton Lawrence Carson (1887)
"Examination of the Cases on Combination against Public Morals and decency.
Cases of combination for acts grossly in violation of public morals or decency ..."
6. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands: In the South Pacific Ocean by William Mariner, John Joseph Martin (1818)
"In reply to this, we must observe, that no nation can well pay greater attention
to public decency than the Tonga people: but at the same time we ..."
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