Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Decency

Decency , noun

[Latin decentia, from decens: compare French décence. See Decent.]

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. — Burke
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. — Atterbury
Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions. — Milton