The Only Use
decorum
in
Middlemarch
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- Mr. Hawley's mode of speech, even when public decorum repressed his "awful language," was formidable in its curtness and self-possession.†
Chpt 7decorum = proper manners and conduct
Definitions:
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(1)
(decorum) manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)