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chasteness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun chasteness has 1 sense
- chasteness(n = noun.attribute) restraint, simpleness, simplicity - lack of ornamentation; "the room was simply decorated with great restraint" is a kind of plainness
Derived form adjective chaste2
CIDE DICTIONARY
chasteness, n.
- Chastity; purity. [1913 Webster]
- Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design. [1913 Webster]
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