Chastity
['tʃæstɪtɪ] or ['tʃæstəti]
Definition
(noun.) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows).
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Definition
(n.) The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
(n.) Moral purity.
(n.) The unmarried life; celibacy.
(n.) Chasteness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Purity, virtue, modesty, continence.[2]. Decency, freedom from obscenity.[3]. Unaffectedness, simplicity.
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Examples
- But constancy, chastity, good sense, and good nature, were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Who else kept that first chastity of mind about their work that young doctors, young priests, and young soldiers usually started with? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Look, ladies, at the chastity of the design--I have no doubt myself that it was turned out in the last century! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Not one of your stiff-laced, moralising fathers, who preach chastity and forbearance to their children. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He resolved to give up all further thoughts of earthly women, and to lead a life of absolute chastity and devotion to the Mother of God. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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