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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
chastity
n 1: abstaining from sexual relations [syn: {celibacy}, {sexual
abstention}]
2: morality with respect to sexual relations [syn: {virtue}, {sexual
morality}]
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