Chaste
[tʃeɪst] or [tʃest]
Definition
(adj.) morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); 'a holy woman innocent and chaste' .
(adj.) abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse .
(adj.) pure and simple in design or style; 'a chaste border of conventionalized flowers' .
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Definition
(a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
(a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.
(a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.
(a.) Unmarried.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Pine, undefiled, virtuous, modest, continent.[2]. Decent, not obscene.[3]. Uncorrupt, unaffected, simple, neat, in good taste.[4]. Refined, elegant, classic.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pure, modest, uncontaminated, spotless, immaculate, undented, virtuous, incorrupt,simple, unaffected, nice
ANT:Impure, corrupt, meretricious, gaudy, flashy, overdecorated
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Definition
adj. modest; refined; virtuous: pure in taste and style.—adv. Chaste′ly.—ns. Chaste′ness the quality of being chaste; Chas′tity sexual purity: virginity: refinement of language: moderation.
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Examples
- For note that Jesus did not set up some external fetich: he did not say, make your neighbor righteous, or chaste, or respectable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The same Signor Jupe was to 'enliven the varied performances at frequent intervals with his chaste Shaksperean quips and retorts. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Gibbon, because of his anti-Christian animus, is hostile to Constantine; but he admits that he was temperate and chaste. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Though his love was as chaste as that of Petrarch for his Laura, it had made fetters of what previously was only a difficulty. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The whole to conclude with a chaste and elegant GENERAL SLAUGHTER! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She sank into Mr. Bumble's arms; and that gentleman in his agitation, imprinted a passionate kiss upon her chaste nose. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Saturnia's statue rises chaste, grand, untouched; at her feet piled ashes lie pale. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Cruel charmer,' and Mr. Jingle skipped playfully up to the spinster aunt, imprinted a chaste kiss upon her lips, and danced out of the room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Oh, said Amy, withdrawing her hand, I must never flirt, nor have any beaux again, I must now lead a pure, virtuous, chaste, and proper life. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And he thought of her as pure, chaste; the white flame which was known to him alone, the flame of her sex, was a white flower of snow to his mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Does he feel the chaste charm Nature wears to-night? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Your Jew was a masterpiece of fine, chaste acting, nothing overdone--no grimace! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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