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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
chastity \chas"tity\, n. f. chastet'e, fr. l. castitas, fr.
castus. see chaste.
1. the state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from
unlawful sexual intercourse.
1913 webster
she . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. --t.
carew.
1913 webster
2. moral purity.
1913 webster
so dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
that, when a soul is found sicerely so
a thousand liveried angels lackey her. --milton.
1913 webster
3. the unmarried life; celibacy. obs. --chaucer.
1913 webster
4. literature art chasteness.
1913 webster
see also:
chaste
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
chastity
n 1: abstaining from sexual relations as because of religious
vows syn: celibacy, sexual abstention
2: morality with respect to sexual relations syn: virtue, sexual
morality
see also:
celibacy sexual abstention virtue sexual morality
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
102 moby thesaurus words for "chastity":
atticism, encratism, friday, lenten fare, pythagoreanism,
pythagorism, rechabitism, shakerism, spartan fare, stoicism,
absoluteness, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence,
appropriateness, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy,
chasteness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness,
comeliness, continence, correctness, defectlessness, dignity,
directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, elegance, elegancy,
eschewal, fast, faultlessness, felicitousness, felicity, finish,
fish day, fittingness, flawlessness, flow, flowing periods,
fluency, forbearance, fruitarianism, good taste, grace,
gracefulness, gracility, guiltlessness, gymnosophy, immaculacy,
immaculateness, impeccability, infallibility, innocence, limpidity,
lucidity, maidenhead, maidenhood, naturalness, neatness, nephalism,
pellucidity, perfection, perspicuity, plain living, plainness,
polish, propriety, purity, refinement, refraining, refrainment,
restraint, seemliness, self-restraint, sexual abstinence,
simple diet, simplicity, sinlessness, smoothness, spare diet,
spotlessness, stainlessness, straightforwardness, taintlessness,
taste, tastefulness, teetotalism, terseness, the pledge,
total abstinence, unaffectedness, vegetarianism, virginity,
virtue
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