Meanings of decorousness in English

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

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

Very decorous people were with each other even though it was a very high voltage under the decorousness.

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

The Swedish estate where much of the film was shot provides a stupendously beautiful backdrop, which has been manicured, dressed and photographed to maximum decorousness.