different between decence vs decency

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decence

(obsolete) decency
- What with more decence were in silence kept, And but for this unjust Reproach had slept?

From Latin decentia, from decens. Compare French décence. See decent.

decency (countable and uncountable, plural decencies)

The quality of being decent; propriety.
- Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.
- 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
  Observances of time and place, and of decency in general.
- 1954 Joseph N. Welch, June
That which is proper or becoming.
- September 28, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
  The external decencies of worship.

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