'Chastity' definitions:
Definition of 'chastity'
(from WordNet)
noun
Abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) [syn: chastity, celibacy, sexual abstention]
noun
Morality with respect to sexual relations [syn: virtue, chastity, sexual morality]
Definition of 'Chastity'
From: GCIDE
- Chastity \Chas"ti*ty\, n. [F. chastet['e], fr. L. castitas, fr. castus. See Chaste.]
- 1. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. [1913 Webster]
- She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. --T. Carew. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Moral purity. [1913 Webster]
- So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Literature & Art) Chasteness. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chastity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absoluteness,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- appropriateness,
- asceticism,
- Atticism,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- celibacy,
- chasteness,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- comeliness,
- continence,
- correctness,
- defectlessness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- Encratism,
- eschewal,
- fast,
- faultlessness,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fish day,
- fittingness,
- flawlessness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- forbearance,
- Friday,
- fruitarianism,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- guiltlessness,
- gymnosophy,
- immaculacy,
- immaculateness,
- impeccability,
- infallibility,
- innocence,
- Lenten fare,
- limpidity,
- lucidity,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- nephalism,
- pellucidity,
- perfection,
- perspicuity,
- plain living,
- plainness,
- polish,
- propriety,
- purity,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- refinement,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- restraint,
- seemliness,
- self-restraint,
- sexual abstinence,
- Shakerism,
- simple diet,
- simplicity,
- sinlessness,
- smoothness,
- spare diet,
- Spartan fare,
- spotlessness,
- stainlessness,
- Stoicism,
- straightforwardness,
- taintlessness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- teetotalism,
- terseness,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- unaffectedness,
- vegetarianism,
- virginity,
- virtue