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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
DECENCE, DECENCYnoun
Etymology: decence, French; decet, Latin.
Those thousand decencies, that daily flow
From all her words and actions. John Milton, Paradise Lost.In good works there may be goodness in the general; but decence and gracefulness can be only in the particulars in doing the good. Thomas Sprat, Sermons.
Were the offices of religion stript of all the external decencies of worship, they would not make a due impression on the minds of those who assist at them. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.
She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought;
But never, never reached gen’rous thought:
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour,
Content to dwell in decencies for ever. Alexander Pope.And must I own, she said, my secret smart?
What with more decence were in silence kept. John Dryden, Æn.The next consideration, immediately subsequent to the being of a thing, is what agrees or disagrees with that thing; what is suitable or unsuitable to it; and from this springs the notion of decency or indecency, that which becomes or mis-becomes. Robert South, Sermons.
Sentiments which raise laughter, can very seldom be admitted with any decency into an heroick poem. Joseph Addison, Spectat.
Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense. Wentworth Dillon.
Webster Dictionary
Decencenoun
decency
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of decence in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of decence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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