What does chastity mean?

Definitions for chastity
ˈtʃæs tɪ tichasti·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. chastity, celibacy, sexual abstentionnoun

    abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)

  2. virtue, chastity, sexual moralitynoun

    morality with respect to sexual relations

Wiktionary

  1. chastitynoun

    The state of abstaining from sexual intercourse before or outside of marriage; avoidance of sexual sins; the quality of being chaste; moral purity.

  2. Chastitynoun

    from the virtue chastity.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. 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.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Chastitynoun

    the state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse

  2. Chastitynoun

    moral purity

  3. Chastitynoun

    the unmarried life; celibacy

  4. Chastitynoun

    chasteness

  5. Etymology: [F. chastet, fr. L. castitas, fr. castus. See Chaste.]

Wikidata

  1. 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

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of chastity in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of chastity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of chastity in a Sentence

  1. Saint Augustine:

    Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  2. Karl Kraus:

    Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

  3. St. Jerome:

    For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

  4. Thomas Paine:

    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.

  5. Alex Comfort:

    We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

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