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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun chastity has 2 senses
- chastity(n = noun.act) celibacy, sexual abstention - abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows); Array is a kind of abstinence
- chastity(n = noun.attribute) sexual morality, virtue - morality with respect to sexual relations; Array is a kind of morality
Derived form adjective chaste3
has particulars: honor, honour, pureness, purity
Derived form adjective chaste1
CIDE DICTIONARY
chastity, n. [F. chasteté, fr. L. castitas, fr. castus. See Chaste.].
- The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. [1913 Webster]"She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity." [1913 Webster]
- 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." [1913 Webster] - The unmarried life; celibacy. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Chasteness. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chastity, n.
1 being chaste.
2 sexual abstinence; virginity.
3 simplicity of style or taste.
1 being chaste.
2 sexual abstinence; virginity.
3 simplicity of style or taste.
Idiom
chastity belt hist. a garment designed to prevent a woman from having sexual intercourse.
Etymology
ME f. OF chastet{eacute} f. L castitas -tatis f. castus CHASTE
THESAURUS
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, virtueROGET THESAURUS
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Purity
N purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure, purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure.Simplicity
N simplicity, plainness, homeliness, undress, chastity, simple, plain, homely, homespun, ordinary, household, unaffected, ingenuous, sincere (artless), free from affectation, free from ornament, simplex munditiis, sans facon, en deshabille, chaste, inornate, severe, unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished, bald, flat, dull, veritatis simplex oratio est.
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