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Chastity

Chastity Meaning & Definition
Chastity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Chastity?

[n] abstaining from sexual relations
[n] morality with respect to sexual relations

Synonyms | Synonyms for Chastity: celibacy | sexual abstention | sexual morality | virtue

Related Terms | Find terms related to Chastity: absoluteness | abstainment | abstemiousness | abstention | abstinence | appropriateness | asceticism | Atticism | avoidance | banyan day | celibacy | chasteness | clarity | classicalism | classicism | clearness | comeliness | continence | correctness | defectlessness | dignity | directness | discrimination | distinction | ease | elegance | elegancy | Encratism | eschewal | fast | faultlessness | felicitousness | felicity | finish | fish day | fittingness | flawlessness | flow | flowing periods | fluency | forbearance | Friday | fruitarianism | good taste | grace | gracefulness | gracility | guiltlessness | gymnosophy | immaculacy | immaculateness | impeccability | infallibility | innocence | Lenten fare | limpidity | lucidity | maidenhead | maidenhood | naturalness | neatness | nephalism | pellucidity | perfection | perspicuity | plain living | plainness | polish | propriety | purity | Pythagoreanism | Pythagorism | Rechabitism | refinement | refraining | refrainment | restraint | seemliness | self-restraint | sexual abstinence | Shakerism | simple diet | simplicity | sinlessness | smoothness | spare diet | Spartan fare | spotlessness | stainlessness | Stoicism | straightforwardness | taintlessness | taste | tastefulness | teetotalism | terseness | the pledge | total abstinence | unaffectedness | vegetarianism | virginity | virtue

See Also | abstinence | honor | honour | morality | purity

Chastity In Webster's Dictionary

\Chas"ti*ty\, 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. She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. --T. Carew. 2. Moral purity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. --Milton. 3. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 4. (Literature & Art) Chasteness.

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