Chastity

  • 51chastity — n. 1. Purity, virtue, modesty, pure mindedness, continence. 2. Purity, cleanness, decency, freedom from impurity or obscenity. 3. [In this sense rare.] Chasteness, chastened character, unaffectedness, simplicity, restrainedness, sobriety,… …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 52chastity — noun (U) the principle or way of behaving in which you do not behave in a way that is sexually immoral, especially for religious reasons …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 53chastity — n 1. chasteness, virtue, virtuousness, goodness; innocence, innocency, modesty, Rare. pudicity; purity, pureness, untouchedness, uncor ruptedness; freshness, cleanness, spotlessness, stain lessness, immaculacy, immaculateness. 2. celibacy,… …

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  • 54chastity — chas·ti·ty …

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  • 55chastity —  Целомудрие …

    Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов

  • 56chastity — chas•ti•ty [[t]ˈtʃæs tɪ ti[/t]] n. the state or quality of being chaste; moral purity • Etymology: 1175–1225; ME chastite, var. of chastete < OF < L castitās …

    From formal English to slang

  • 57chastity — /ˈtʃæstəti/ (say chastuhtee) noun the quality of being chaste. {Middle English chastete, from Old French, from chaste chaste + te ty2} …

  • 58chastity — Purity; continence. Quality or state of being chaste. It means that virtue which prevents the unlawful intercourse of the sexes; the state of purity or abstinence from unlawful sexual connection …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 59chastity — Purity; continence. Quality or state of being chaste. It means that virtue which prevents the unlawful intercourse of the sexes; the state of purity or abstinence from unlawful sexual connection …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 60chastity — As applied to an unmarried person, undefiled, which, in the case of a female, means one who has retained her virginity. State v Dacke, 59 Wash 238, 109 P 1050. Purity of body in the sense of never having had meretricious relations. State v Holter …

    Ballentine's law dictionary