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Chastity

//ˈt͡ʃæstɪti// name, noun

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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."

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

Etymology

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

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