Chastity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chastity \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.
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              She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. --T.
                                                    Carew.
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     2. Moral purity.
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              So dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
              That, when a soul is found sicerely so
              A thousand liveried angels lackey her. --Milton.
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     3. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     4. (Literature & Art) Chasteness.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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