Thesaurus: chastity

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1. n. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
2. n. Moral purity.
3. n. The unmarried life; celibacy.
4. n. Chasteness.
5. n. abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)
6. n. morality with respect to sexual relations
7. 1. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. T. Carew. 2. Moral purity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton. 3. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] Chaucer. 4. (Literature & Art) Chasteness.
8. n:100 n. abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)