decence
See also: décence
English
Noun
decence
- (obsolete) decency
- 1683, William Clagett, An Answer to the Dissenters Objections Against the Common:
- When the Decence and Convenience of a thing is considered, we should attribute much to the Wisdom of Authority
- 1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- What with more decence were in silence kept, And but for this unjust Reproach had slept?
References
- “decence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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