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noun

Chastity n.

The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. "She... hath preserved her spotless chastity."

Moral purity. "So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her."

The unmarried life; celibacy. (Obs.)

(Literature & Art) Chasteness.

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Etymology of 'Chastity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chastity" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the solemn vows taken by the Jesuits are those of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The fourth vow is the promise to go wherever the ...

— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone

... die renowned for chastity, Than live with shame and endless infamy. What would the common sort report of me, If I forget my love, and ...

— 2. Mucedorus • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]

... mutilated themselves. Some have been scrupulous to bathe, and some have been scrupulous to cake their bodies with the foulness of years. Many have devoted their lives to assist others in sickness or poverty. Chastity has been faithfully observed, chastity both of body and mind. Self-examination has been pursued till it ended in a species of sacred insanity, and all these have been of no more value than the tortures undergone by the Indian mendicant who hangs himself up by a hook ...

— The Story of My Heart • Richard Jefferies

... honour or of chastity to you!' she went on. 'What meaning would it have to you; what meaning would it have from me! But if I tell you that the lightest touch of your hand makes my blood cold with antipathy; that from the hour when I first saw and hated you, to now, when my instinctive ...

— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens

... is this in the conception of the family. The hallowing of home-life was one of the best features of Judaism. Chastity was the mark of men and women alike. The position of the Jewish woman was in many ways high. At law she enjoyed certain privileges and suffered certain disabilities. But in the house she was queen. Monogamy had been the rule of Jewish life ...

— Judaism • Israel Abrahams

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