Decency /(?)/

De·cen·cy

Decency

n.

pl. Decencies

  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.
    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.
    Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions.