Noun

(en-noun)

The quality of being respectable.

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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability' out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of ' respectability :it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

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The class of respectable people.

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.