decence

See also: décence

English

Noun

decence

1. (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.