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Decent vs Ancestry - What's the difference?

decent | ancestry |

As an adjective decent

is appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.

As a noun ancestry is

condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

decent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.
  • (of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness.
  • Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen.
  • Fair; good enough; okay.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
  • Significant; substantial.
  • (obsolete) Comely; shapely; well-formed.
  • * A sable stole of cyprus lawn / Over thy decent shoulders drawn — Milton.

    • Antonyms

    * indecent

    Related terms

    * decency * decently

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    ancestry

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ancestrie (obsolete) * auncestrie (obsolete) * auncestry (obsolete)

    Noun

    (ancestries)
  • Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
    • Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.
  • A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

    • Related terms

    * ancestor