Chastity

Definitions

1. The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.
   countable, uncountable
2. A female given name from English from the virtue chastity.
   rare

Equivalents

Examples

“The monk took a vow of chastity.”

“vow of chastity”

“virtue and chastity”

“In Catholic doctrine, the virtue of chastity is taken to be the principal foil to everyone's favourite deadly sin, lust.”

“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.”

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