decorousness

That decorousness, that brightness, melted off what lay behind, as frosty dew melts off grass.

One learned, one merely obscene; one a pattern of decorousness, the other a self-polluter.

As soon as their keels touched the strand, they poured out, a few in uncouth antics, but the bulk of them in solemn decorousness.

But in many of the better class houses merriment and gayety went on while the outside decorousness was observed.

Cyrus was talking to Mr. McFarland with a certain self-conscious decorousness.