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Decencies
(gcide) | 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.
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Observances of time, place, and of decency in
general. --Burke.
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Immodest words admit of no defense,
For want of decency is want of sense. --Roscommon.
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2. That which is proper or becoming.
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The external decencies of worship. --Atterbury.
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Those thousand decencies, that daily flow
From all her words and actions. --Milton.
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Indecencies
(gcide) | Indecency \In*de"cen*cy\, n.; pl. Indecencies. [L. indecentia
unseemliness: cf. F. ind['e]cence.]
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1. The quality or state of being indecent; lack of decency,
modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
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2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an
offense against delicacy.
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They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear
or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I
allude to, are pests of society. --Beattie.
Syn: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity.
See Indecorum.
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