undecencyn.
Now Obsolete or rare.
a. = indecency n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [noun]
unseemlinessc1380
indecency1589
undecency1589
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
impropriety1751
indecorousness1811
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun]
unconablenessa1340
unseemlinessc1380
ungrace1430
disconveniencec1450
unlikelinessc1485
wangrace1513
unseemingness1540
uncomeliness1542
indecency1589
undecency1589
unhandsomeness1598
unbeseemingness1623
misbecomingness1644
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
impropriety1751
indecorousness1811
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unseemly behaviour or unseemliness
unconablenessa1340
unconabletya1340
unseemlinessc1380
ungrace1430
disconveniencec1450
unlikelinessc1485
wangrace1513
uncomeliness1542
indecency1589
undecency1589
unhandsomeness1598
unworthiness1608
inconveniencya1616
unbeseemingness1623
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
indecorousness1811
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 221 Diuers points, in which the wise and learned men of times past haue noted much decency or vndecencie.
1656 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 75 Upon a motion against blackpatches used by women on their faces, all undecency in apparrell was also moved again.
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 545 From this springs the Notion of Decency or Undecency; that which becomes or mis-becomes.
b. = indecency n. 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [noun] > instance of
indecorum1575
undecency1624
indecency1639
evagation1649
impropriety1685
sin1780
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > instance of
unconabletya1340
indecorum1575
undecency1624
sin1780
impropriety1831
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unseemly behaviour or unseemliness > instance of
inconvenienta1464
undecency1624
indecency1639
evagation1649
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 189 It should be subject to many undecencies, as corruption, putrefaction, mice-eating.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant Introd. 5 A disproportionate instrument is an undecency, and makes the effect impossible.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 30 Every vacuity is (as it were) the hunger of the creation, both an undecency, and a torment.
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