Refinement vs Decency - What's the difference?
refinement | decency |
The act, or the result of refining; the removal of impurities, or a purified material
High-class style; cultivation.
A fine or subtle distinction.
the quality of being decent; propriety
* Burke
* Roscommon
That which is proper or becoming.
* Atterbury
* Milton
As nouns the difference between refinement and decency
is that refinement is the act, or the result of refining; the removal of impurities, or a purified material while decency is the quality of being decent; propriety.refinement
English
(wikipedia refinement)Noun
(en noun)decency
English
Noun
- Observances of time, place, and of decency in general.
- Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.
- The external decencies of worship.
- Those thousand decencies , that daily flow / From all her words and actions.