Meanings
noun
- obsoletedecency
What with more decence were in silence kept, And but for this unjust Reproach had slept?
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, […], →OCLC1 more example
When the Decence and Convenience of a thing is considered, we should attribute much to the Wisdom of Authority
1683, William Clagett, An Answer to the Dissenters Objections Against the Common
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