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Decency vs Righteous - What's the difference?

decency | righteous |

As a noun decency

is the quality of being decent; propriety.

As an adjective righteous is

free from sin or guilt.

As a verb righteous is

to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.

decency

English

Noun

  • the quality of being decent; propriety
  • * Burke
    • Observances of time, place, and of decency in general.
  • * Roscommon
    • Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.
  • That which is proper or becoming.
  • * Atterbury
    • The external decencies of worship.
  • * Milton
    • Those thousand decencies , that daily flow / From all her words and actions.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "decency")

    righteous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • free from sin or guilt
  • moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
  • justified morally
  • (slang, US) awesome

    • Derived terms

    * righteousness * self-righteous

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 101:
    • Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.