Chastity

//ˈt͡ʃæstɪti// name, noun

name, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins. countable, uncountable

    "The monk took a vow of chastity."

  2. 2
    abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) wordnet
  3. 3
    morality with respect to sexual relations wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from English from the virtue chastity. rare

    "Since she was saddled with that awful name, Chastity Bono has given her parents much grief over it. "It helps to get into a show or something, but most of the time it's a pain," she told McCall's. The girl blames mama Cher who was inspired by a movie."

Synonyms

All synonyms
virtueabsolutenessabstainmentabstemiousnessabstentionabstinence

Example

More examples

"God, please give me chastity and continence, but not yet."

Etymology

From Middle English chastite, from Old French chasteté, a semi-learned adaptation of Latin castitas, equivalent to chaste + -ity.

Related phrases

chastity beltchastity cagechastity ring

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