chastity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: chas=ti=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

chastity, n. [F. chasteté, fr. L. castitas, fr. castus. See Chaste.].

•  The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.  [1913 Webster]

  "She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity."  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  The unmarried life; celibacy.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  Chasteness.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chastity, n.
1 being chaste.
2 sexual abstinence; virginity.
3 simplicity of style or taste.

Idiom

chastity belt hist. a garment designed to prevent a woman from having sexual intercourse.

Etymology

ME f. OF chastet{eacute} f. L castitas -tatis f. castus CHASTE

THESAURUS

chastity

Atticism, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, absoluteness, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, appropriateness, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy, chasteness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, comeliness, continence, correctness, defectlessness, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, elegance, elegancy, eschewal, fast, faultlessness, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fish day, fittingness, flawlessness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, forbearance, fruitarianism, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, guiltlessness, gymnosophy, immaculacy, immaculateness, impeccability, infallibility, innocence, limpidity, lucidity, maidenhead, maidenhood, naturalness, neatness, nephalism, pellucidity, perfection, perspicuity, plain living, plainness, polish, propriety, purity, refinement, refraining, refrainment, restraint, seemliness, self-restraint, sexual abstinence, simple diet, simplicity, sinlessness, smoothness, spare diet, spotlessness, stainlessness, straightforwardness, taintlessness, taste, tastefulness, teetotalism, terseness, the pledge, total abstinence, unaffectedness, vegetarianism, virginity, virtue

ROGET THESAURUS

chastity

Purity

N purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure, purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure.

Simplicity

N simplicity, plainness, homeliness, undress, chastity, simple, plain, homely, homespun, ordinary, household, unaffected, ingenuous, sincere (artless), free from affectation, free from ornament, simplex munditiis, sans facon, en deshabille, chaste, inornate, severe, unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished, bald, flat, dull, veritatis simplex oratio est.