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chastity

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  1. 1. n. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Moral purity. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. The unmarried life; celibacy. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. Chasteness. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) Source: wordnet
  6. 6. n. morality with respect to sexual relations Source: wordnet
  7. 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. Source: webster
  8. 8. n:100 n. abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) Source: ecdict

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