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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition or quality of being chaste, especially the condition of not having had sexual intercourse or of abstaining from sexual relations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being chaste; the state of being guiltless of unlawful sexual intercourse; sexual purity.
- noun Celibacy; the unmarried state.
- noun Abstinence from lawful indulgence of sexual intercourse; continence due to a religious motive.
- noun Freedom from obscenity, depravity, or impurity, as in thought, language, or life; moral purity.
- noun Purity and simplicity of style in writing.—
- noun In art, freedom from meretricious ornament or affectation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
- noun Moral purity.
- noun obsolete The unmarried life; celibacy.
- noun (Literature & Art) Chasteness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of
abstaining fromsexual intercourse before or outside ofmarriage ;avoidance ofsexual sins ; the quality of beingchaste ;moral purity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)
- noun morality with respect to sexual relations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her mind is still afraid of the unknown and of what she does not understand; that is what they call chastity and purity.
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And the value of my chastity is one level on which men cannot compete with me.
Archive 2009-01-25 Tyler 2009
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John C. Wright has produced a six-part essay on the subject of why chastity is good, why the erosion of marriage leads to a breakdown in society, and why homosexuality is disordered:
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John C. Wright has produced a six-part essay on the subject of why chastity is good, why the erosion of marriage leads to a breakdown in society, and why homosexuality is disordered:
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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In the capable hands of author, mother, and BYU alum Stephenie Meyer, chastity is charged with sexual excitement.
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The culture that encourages chastity is seriously misrepresented in the mainstream media.
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And the value of my chastity is one level on which men cannot compete with me.
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And the value of my chastity is one level on which men cannot compete with me.
The Virgin Whore speaketh Tyler 2009
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“You are not a real man because you cannot attract The Ladies with your innate sexual virility/status/wealth etc” to go along with the “you are a bad lady because you do not believe chastity is the cardinal female virtue.”
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In the capable hands of author, mother, and BYU alum Stephenie Meyer, chastity is charged with sexual excitement.
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synonyms (105)
Words with the same meaning
- 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
- honor
- immaculacy
- immaculateness
- impeccability
- infallibility
- innocence
- limpidity
- lucidity
- maidenhead
- maidenhood
- naturalness
- neatness
- nephalism
- pellucidity
- perfection
- perspicuity
- plain living
- plainness
- polish
- propriety
- pureness
- 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
- virtuousness
sakhalinskii commented on the word chastity
Something we'd all be better without.
July 30, 2008