decency

English

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decency (countable and uncountable, plural decencies)

The quality of being decent; propriety.
- (Can we date this quote by Burke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
  Observances of time, place, and of decency in general.
- (Can we date this quote?), Wentworth Dillon, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
  
  Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.
- 1954 June, Joseph N. Welch.
  Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
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That which is proper or becoming.
- (Can we date this quote by Atterbury and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
  The external decencies of worship.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
  Those thousand decencies, that daily flow / From all her words and actions.

quality of being decent

Bulgarian: благоприличие (bg) (blagopriličie)
Catalan: decència (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 體統／体统 (zh) (tǐtǒng), 体统 (zh) (tǐtǒng), 規矩／规矩 (zh) (guījǔ), 规矩 (zh) (guījǔ), 體面／体面 (zh) (tǐmiàn), 体面 (zh) (tǐmiàn), 得體／得体 (zh) (détǐ), 得体 (zh) (détǐ), 正派 (zh) (zhèngpài), 端莊／端庄 (zh) (duānzhuāng), 端庄 (zh) (duānzhuāng), 正直 (zh) (zhèngzhí)
Czech: slušnost f
Dutch: fatsoen (nl) n
Finnish: säädyllisyys (fi), soveliaisuus (fi)
French: décence (fr)
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German: Anstand (de) m
Greek: αιδώς (el) f (aidós)
Hebrew: הגינות f (haginut)
Portuguese: decência (pt) f
Romanian: cuviință (ro), cădere (ro), decență (ro)
Russian: поря́дочность (ru) f (porjádočnostʹ), прили́чие (ru) n (prilíčije)
Spanish: decencia (es) f
Swedish: anständighet (sv) c

that which is proper

Chinese:
Mandarin: 體統／体统 (zh) (tǐtǒng), 体统 (zh) (tǐtǒng), 規矩／规矩 (zh) (guījǔ), 规矩 (zh) (guījǔ), 體面／体面 (zh) (tǐmiàn), 体面 (zh) (tǐmiàn), 得體／得体 (zh) (détǐ), 得体 (zh) (détǐ), 正派 (zh) (zhèngpài), 端莊／端庄 (zh) (duānzhuāng), 端庄 (zh) (duānzhuāng), 正直 (zh) (zhèngzhí)
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Finnish: sopivaisuus (fi)
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can