What does chastity mean?
Definitions for chastity
ˈtʃæs tɪ tichasti·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
chastity, celibacy, sexual abstentionnoun
abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)
virtue, chastity, sexual moralitynoun
morality with respect to sexual relations
Wiktionary
chastitynoun
The state of abstaining from sexual intercourse before or outside of marriage; avoidance of sexual sins; the quality of being chaste; moral purity.
Chastitynoun
from the virtue chastity.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Chastitynoun
Etymology: castitas, Lat.
Who can be bound by any solemn vow,
To force a spotless virgin’s chastity? William Shakespeare, Henry VI.Chastity is either abstinence or continence: abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence of married persons: chaste marriages are honourable and pleasing to God. Jeremy Taylor, Rule of Living Holy.
Ev’n here where frozen chastity retires,
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. Alexander Pope.There is not chastity enough in language,
Without offence to utter them. William Shakespeare, Much ado about Nothing.
Wikipedia
Chastity
Chastity, also known as purity, is a virtue related to temperance. Someone who is chaste refrains either from sexual activity considered immoral or any sexual activity, according to their state of life. In some contexts, for example when making a vow of chastity, chastity means the same as celibacy.
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chastity
Chastity is the state or practice of refraining from extra-marital, or especially from all, sexual intercourse. The term is often associated with virtues such as purity and moral integrity. Chastity can also refer to the abstention from all sexual activity as in celibacy.
Webster Dictionary
Chastitynoun
the state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse
Chastitynoun
moral purity
Chastitynoun
the unmarried life; celibacy
Chastitynoun
chasteness
Etymology: [F. chastet, fr. L. castitas, fr. castus. See Chaste.]
Wikidata
Chastity
Chastity refers to the sexual behavior of a man or woman acceptable to the moral standards and guidelines of a culture, civilization or religion. In the Western world, the term has become closely associated with sexual abstinence, especially before marriage. However, the term remains applicable to persons in all states, single or married, clerical or lay, heterosexual or homosexual, and has implications beyond sexual temperance.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of chastity in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of chastity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of chastity in a Sentence
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
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