decorumn.

/dɪˈkɔːrəm/

Etymology: < Latin decōrum that which is seemly, propriety; substantive use of neuter singular of decōrus adjective, seemly, fitting, proper. So modern French décorum (since 16th cent.).

1. That which is proper, suitable, seemly, befitting, becoming; fitness, propriety, congruity.

†a. esp. in dramatic, literary, or artistic composition: That which is proper to a personage, place, time, or subject in question, or to the nature, unity, or harmony of the composition; fitness, congruity, keeping. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally

decoruma1568

humoura1568

variety1597

strength1608

uniformity1625

barbarity1644

freedom1645

boldness1677

correctness1684

clinquant1711

unity1712

contrast1713

meretriciousness1727

airiness1734

pathos1739

chastity1760

vigour1774

prettyism1789

mannerism1803

serio-comic1805

actuality1812

largeness1824

local colour1829

subjectivitya1834

idealism1841

pastoralism1842

inartisticalitya1849

academicism1852

realism1856

colour contrast1858

crampedness1858

niggling1858

audacity1859

superreality1859

literalism1860

pseudo-classicism1861

sensationalism1862

sensationism1862

chocolate box1865

pseudo-classicality1867

academism1871

actualism1872

academicalism1874

ethos1875

terribilità1877

local colouring1881

neoclassicism1893

mass effect1902

attack1905

verismo1908

kitsch1921

abstraction1923

self-consciousness1932

surreality1936

tension1941

build-up1942

sprezzatura1957

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > decorum or fitness

decoruma1568

felicity1605

keeping1819

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 57 Who soeuer hath bene diligent to read aduisedlie ouer, Terence, Seneca, Virgil, Horace..he shall easelie perceiue, what is fitte and decorum in euerie one.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1156/2 I..lay all the wyte in M. More, the author & contriuer of this Poeticall booke, for not kepyng Decorum personæ, as a perfect Poete should haue done.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1156/2 Some will thinke..M. More to haue missed some parte of his Decorum, in makyng the euil spirite..to be messenger betwene midle earth, and Purgatory.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. vi. iv. 377 If that Decorum of time and place..be obserued.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 6 What the laws are of a true Epic poem, what of a Dramatic, what of a Lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand master peece to observe.

1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. (new ed.) ii. 67 Simon Sanese began to understand the Decorum of Composition.

1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. (new ed.) iii. 119 The second part of Invention is Decorum; that is, that there be nothing Absurd nor Discordant in the Piece.

1698 A. Boyer & J. Savage tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont in T. Hearne Ductor Historicus I. ii. vi. 184 A just Decorum is not always..observ'd.., for he [sc. Xenophon] sometimes makes Blockheads and Barbarians talk like Philosophers.

1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. i. 5 Complaints..[which] when uttered by the inhabitants of Greece, have a decorum and consistency, which they totally lose in the character of a British shepherd.

b. That which is proper to the character, position, rank, or dignity of a real person. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > proper pride or self-respect > [noun] > dignity

lordliness1440

portliness1530

majesty1531

stateliness1541

state1557

regality1582

decorum1589

grandeur1615

port1633

statefulness1655

dignity1667

consequence1793

statelihood1845

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 249 Our soueraign Lady (keeping alwaies the decorum of a Princely person) at her first comming to the crowne [etc.].

1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. H 4 The minde of man degenerating from the decorum of humanitie becomes monstrous.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 17 Maiesty to keepe decorum, must No lesse begge then a Kingdome.

1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 171 He was a Prince of a lofty Mind, careful to preserve the Decorum of State and Empire.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 95 He..did not always observe the decorum of his post.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 180 It was necessary to the decorum of her character that she should admonish her erring children.

c. That which is proper to the circumstances or requirements of the case: seemliness, propriety, fitness; = decency n. 1. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > fittingness or propriety

righteousnessOE

duea1425

properness1531

decency1567

dueness1576

decorum1586

fitness1597

orthotes1605

propriety1612

befittingnessa1645

beseemlinessa1645

fittingness1653

becomeness1656

beseemingness1656

becomingness1657

condecency1662

competibleness1667

decence1678

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 181 A way how to frame al things according to that which is decent or seemely, which the Latines call Decorum.

1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 47 She deemd it no decorum to blemish her yet-during pleasures with not auailing sorrow.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 19 Temperance formally consistes in giving al persons and things their just decorum and measure.

1809 Mathias in Gray's Corr. (1843) 16 There was a peculiar propriety and decorum in his manner of reading.

1841 R. C. Trench Notes Parables v. 105 They argue that it is against the decorum of the Divine teaching.

2. Qualities which result from sense 1:

†a. Beauty arising from fitness, or from absence of the incongruous; comeliness; grace; gracefulness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun]

wlitec825

faireOE

fairnessOE

fairlecc1225

fairheadc1300

fairshipc1300

forma1382

clearnessa1400

beautyc1405

delicacya1450

pulchritudea1460

speciositya1470

lovelinessa1500

beautifulnessc1500

formosityc1500

fairhood?1503

bewtynes?c1510

decorea1513

venusty1559

decorum1604

bellitude1623

beauteousnessa1631

loveliheada1637

decor1656

luculency1656

Venus1657

coquetry1794

beautyhood1832

glamour1840

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Decorum, comelines.

1618 Owles Almanacke 56 A coloured cloute will set the stampe of decorum on a rotten partition.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vii. §3. 327 To shew the due decorum and comely beauty of the worlds brave structure.

1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery v. 334 The Decorum and Gracefulness of any Pile, the making the whole Aspect of a Fabric so correct.

†b. Orderly condition, orderliness. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > orderly condition or arrangement

ordinancec1390

pointa1393

direction1407

order?a1425

framec1475

orderliness1571

form1600

decorum1610

shape1633

disposurea1637

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xxv. 466 Whose wisdome reacheth from end to end, ordering all in a delicate Decorum.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xxii. xxiv. 906 And brings the potentiall formes into such actuall decorum.

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 132 The first orders of things are more perfect and regular, and this decorum seems to be observ'd afterwards.

†c. Orderly and grave array. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > ceremony or formality > [noun]

with or in (great, etc.) solemnityc1290

ceremonialc1380

circumstancec1386

celebrityc1425

pomposity?a1475

solemness1530

state1599

fashionableness1608

ceremoniality1623

decorum1638

setness1642

formality1666

ceremonialnessa1680

formalness1684

gravity1689

solemn1706

ceremony1759

panjandrum1860

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 238 In this Decorum they march slowly, and with great silence [at a funeral].

3. Propriety of behaviour; what is fitting or proper in behaviour or demeanour, what is in accordance with the standard of good breeding; the avoidance of anything unseemly or offensive in manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety

seemlihead?a1366

honestya1398

comeliness1440

seemlihoodc1440

seemlityc1440

semblessea1500

seemliness1548

decentness1561

decorum?1571

handsomeness1595

civility1612

decency1682

exactness1683

elegance1686

propriety1753

thing1791

bienseancea1797

convenances1831

decorousness1834

the becoming1842

correctnessa1859

good (also bad) form1868

properness1873

correctitude1893

the done thing1917

?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Miij To obserue decorum and comely conuenience in hir pairt..sche counterfeiteth a mourning.

a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) viii. 93 She resolved to keep within the Decorum of her sex.

1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love Epil. Where nothing must decorum shock.

1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 159 I can't see any breach of Decorum, if a Lady..should ride on Horse-back.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. iii. 89 The Lady Abbess was a woman of rigid decorum and severe devotion.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 442 A spirit of levity and wrangling, wholly inconsistent with the grave decorum due to the investigation and decision of a philosophical subject.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xiii. 264 My Father..would never wish his grown up daughters to be acting plays. His sense of decorum is strict.

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxvii. 475 If the mothers..are shocked at the want of decorum in my friend Judy.

4. (with a and plural)

†a. A fitting or appropriate act. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > pleasing fitness > [noun] > seemliness or propriety > that which has

decorum1601

respectabilities1809

the becoming1842

comme il faut1857

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > an) act(s) or requirement(s) of > a fitting or appropriate act

decorum1601

1601 A. Copley Answere to Let. Iesuited Gentleman 114 It had bin a decorum in them, to haue shewd them-selues thankful vnto such..kind office.

1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 372 The Laugh, the Speech, the Action, accompanied with Agreements and Decorum's.

1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 21 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 263 The Tragedy of Caligula, where, amongst other decorums, Harlequin..was very familiar with the Emperor himself.

b. An act or requirement of polite behaviour; a decorous observance; chiefly in plural, proprieties.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > an) act(s) or requirement(s) of

decorum1603

convenientsa1657

decencies1667

the proprieties1767

respectabilities1809

the conventionalities1854

1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 245 The Spanish nation..vsing a certaine decorum (which they call an obeysance or..a compliment or cerimonious curtesie).

1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i. i Tell not me..of your Decorums, supercilious Forms, and slavish Ceremonies.

1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example i. i My Lady Stately longs to see you, had paid you a Visit but for the Decorums: She expects the first from you.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. xii. 198 No decorums could restrain the impatience of his blushing mistress to be forgiven.

1865 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (new ed.) VIII. lxvi. 202 The dignity of his military character was hedged round by formalities and decorums.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	decorum
释义	decorumn. /dɪˈkɔːrəm/ Etymology: < Latin decōrum that which is seemly, propriety; substantive use of neuter singular of decōrus adjective, seemly, fitting, proper. So modern French décorum (since 16th cent.). 1. That which is proper, suitable, seemly, befitting, becoming; fitness, propriety, congruity. †a. esp. in dramatic, literary, or artistic composition: That which is proper to a personage, place, time, or subject in question, or to the nature, unity, or harmony of the composition; fitness, congruity, keeping. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally decoruma1568 humoura1568 variety1597 strength1608 uniformity1625 barbarity1644 freedom1645 boldness1677 correctness1684 clinquant1711 unity1712 contrast1713 meretriciousness1727 airiness1734 pathos1739 chastity1760 vigour1774 prettyism1789 mannerism1803 serio-comic1805 actuality1812 largeness1824 local colour1829 subjectivitya1834 idealism1841 pastoralism1842 inartisticalitya1849 academicism1852 realism1856 colour contrast1858 crampedness1858 niggling1858 audacity1859 superreality1859 literalism1860 pseudo-classicism1861 sensationalism1862 sensationism1862 chocolate box1865 pseudo-classicality1867 academism1871 actualism1872 academicalism1874 ethos1875 terribilità1877 local colouring1881 neoclassicism1893 mass effect1902 attack1905 verismo1908 kitsch1921 abstraction1923 self-consciousness1932 surreality1936 tension1941 build-up1942 sprezzatura1957 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > decorum or fitness decoruma1568 felicity1605 keeping1819 a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 57 Who soeuer hath bene diligent to read aduisedlie ouer, Terence, Seneca, Virgil, Horace..he shall easelie perceiue, what is fitte and decorum in euerie one. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1156/2 I..lay all the wyte in M. More, the author & contriuer of this Poeticall booke, for not kepyng Decorum personæ, as a perfect Poete should haue done. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1156/2 Some will thinke..M. More to haue missed some parte of his Decorum, in makyng the euil spirite..to be messenger betwene midle earth, and Purgatory. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. vi. iv. 377 If that Decorum of time and place..be obserued. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 6 What the laws are of a true Epic poem, what of a Dramatic, what of a Lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand master peece to observe. 1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. (new ed.) ii. 67 Simon Sanese began to understand the Decorum of Composition. 1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. (new ed.) iii. 119 The second part of Invention is Decorum; that is, that there be nothing Absurd nor Discordant in the Piece. 1698 A. Boyer & J. Savage tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont in T. Hearne Ductor Historicus I. ii. vi. 184 A just Decorum is not always..observ'd.., for he [sc. Xenophon] sometimes makes Blockheads and Barbarians talk like Philosophers. 1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. i. 5 Complaints..[which] when uttered by the inhabitants of Greece, have a decorum and consistency, which they totally lose in the character of a British shepherd. b. That which is proper to the character, position, rank, or dignity of a real person. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > proper pride or self-respect > [noun] > dignity lordliness1440 portliness1530 majesty1531 stateliness1541 state1557 regality1582 decorum1589 grandeur1615 port1633 statefulness1655 dignity1667 consequence1793 statelihood1845 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 249 Our soueraign Lady (keeping alwaies the decorum of a Princely person) at her first comming to the crowne [etc.]. 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. H 4 The minde of man degenerating from the decorum of humanitie becomes monstrous. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 17 Maiesty to keepe decorum, must No lesse begge then a Kingdome. View more context for this quotation 1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 171 He was a Prince of a lofty Mind, careful to preserve the Decorum of State and Empire. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 95 He..did not always observe the decorum of his post. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 180 It was necessary to the decorum of her character that she should admonish her erring children. c. That which is proper to the circumstances or requirements of the case: seemliness, propriety, fitness; = decency n. 1. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > fittingness or propriety righteousnessOE duea1425 properness1531 decency1567 dueness1576 decorum1586 fitness1597 orthotes1605 propriety1612 befittingnessa1645 beseemlinessa1645 fittingness1653 becomeness1656 beseemingness1656 becomingness1657 condecency1662 competibleness1667 decence1678 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 181 A way how to frame al things according to that which is decent or seemely, which the Latines call Decorum. 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 47 She deemd it no decorum to blemish her yet-during pleasures with not auailing sorrow. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 19 Temperance formally consistes in giving al persons and things their just decorum and measure. 1809 Mathias in Gray's Corr. (1843) 16 There was a peculiar propriety and decorum in his manner of reading. 1841 R. C. Trench Notes Parables v. 105 They argue that it is against the decorum of the Divine teaching. 2. Qualities which result from sense 1: †a. Beauty arising from fitness, or from absence of the incongruous; comeliness; grace; gracefulness. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] wlitec825 faireOE fairnessOE fairlecc1225 fairheadc1300 fairshipc1300 forma1382 clearnessa1400 beautyc1405 delicacya1450 pulchritudea1460 speciositya1470 lovelinessa1500 beautifulnessc1500 formosityc1500 fairhood?1503 bewtynes?c1510 decorea1513 venusty1559 decorum1604 bellitude1623 beauteousnessa1631 loveliheada1637 decor1656 luculency1656 Venus1657 coquetry1794 beautyhood1832 glamour1840 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Decorum, comelines. 1618 Owles Almanacke 56 A coloured cloute will set the stampe of decorum on a rotten partition. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vii. §3. 327 To shew the due decorum and comely beauty of the worlds brave structure. 1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery v. 334 The Decorum and Gracefulness of any Pile, the making the whole Aspect of a Fabric so correct. †b. Orderly condition, orderliness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > orderly condition or arrangement ordinancec1390 pointa1393 direction1407 order?a1425 framec1475 orderliness1571 form1600 decorum1610 shape1633 disposurea1637 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xxv. 466 Whose wisdome reacheth from end to end, ordering all in a delicate Decorum. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xxii. xxiv. 906 And brings the potentiall formes into such actuall decorum. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 132 The first orders of things are more perfect and regular, and this decorum seems to be observ'd afterwards. †c. Orderly and grave array. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > ceremony or formality > [noun] with or in (great, etc.) solemnityc1290 ceremonialc1380 circumstancec1386 celebrityc1425 pomposity?a1475 solemness1530 state1599 fashionableness1608 ceremoniality1623 decorum1638 setness1642 formality1666 ceremonialnessa1680 formalness1684 gravity1689 solemn1706 ceremony1759 panjandrum1860 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 238 In this Decorum they march slowly, and with great silence [at a funeral]. 3. Propriety of behaviour; what is fitting or proper in behaviour or demeanour, what is in accordance with the standard of good breeding; the avoidance of anything unseemly or offensive in manner. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety seemlihead?a1366 honestya1398 comeliness1440 seemlihoodc1440 seemlityc1440 semblessea1500 seemliness1548 decentness1561 decorum?1571 handsomeness1595 civility1612 decency1682 exactness1683 elegance1686 propriety1753 thing1791 bienseancea1797 convenances1831 decorousness1834 the becoming1842 correctnessa1859 good (also bad) form1868 properness1873 correctitude1893 the done thing1917 ?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Miij To obserue decorum and comely conuenience in hir pairt..sche counterfeiteth a mourning. a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) viii. 93 She resolved to keep within the Decorum of her sex. 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love Epil. Where nothing must decorum shock. 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 159 I can't see any breach of Decorum, if a Lady..should ride on Horse-back. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. iii. 89 The Lady Abbess was a woman of rigid decorum and severe devotion. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 442 A spirit of levity and wrangling, wholly inconsistent with the grave decorum due to the investigation and decision of a philosophical subject. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xiii. 264 My Father..would never wish his grown up daughters to be acting plays. His sense of decorum is strict. View more context for this quotation 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxvii. 475 If the mothers..are shocked at the want of decorum in my friend Judy. 4. (with a and plural) †a. A fitting or appropriate act. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > pleasing fitness > [noun] > seemliness or propriety > that which has decorum1601 respectabilities1809 the becoming1842 comme il faut1857 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > an) act(s) or requirement(s) of > a fitting or appropriate act decorum1601 1601 A. Copley Answere to Let. Iesuited Gentleman 114 It had bin a decorum in them, to haue shewd them-selues thankful vnto such..kind office. 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 372 The Laugh, the Speech, the Action, accompanied with Agreements and Decorum's. 1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 21 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 263 The Tragedy of Caligula, where, amongst other decorums, Harlequin..was very familiar with the Emperor himself. b. An act or requirement of polite behaviour; a decorous observance; chiefly in plural, proprieties. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > an) act(s) or requirement(s) of decorum1603 convenientsa1657 decencies1667 the proprieties1767 respectabilities1809 the conventionalities1854 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 245 The Spanish nation..vsing a certaine decorum (which they call an obeysance or..a compliment or cerimonious curtesie). 1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i. i Tell not me..of your Decorums, supercilious Forms, and slavish Ceremonies. 1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example i. i My Lady Stately longs to see you, had paid you a Visit but for the Decorums: She expects the first from you. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. xii. 198 No decorums could restrain the impatience of his blushing mistress to be forgiven. 1865 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (new ed.) VIII. lxvi. 202 The dignity of his military character was hedged round by formalities and decorums. 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