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Decency

Webster's Dictionary

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(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.

(2):

(n.) That which is proper or becoming.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Decency'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/decency.html. 1828.
 
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