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chasteness|ˈtʃeɪstnɪs|
[f. chaste a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being chaste.
1. Chastity, sexual purity. arch.
c1386Chaucer Sec. Nun's T. 88 Pure chaastnesse of virginitee. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 258 In her let beautie both, and chastnesse fully raigne. 1683Cave Ecclesiastici 415 So great a Patron of modesty and chastness, that he prohibited the Marriages of Cousin-germans. 1718Free-thinker No. 108. 20 It tends..to corrupt the Sobriety and Chasteness of the People's Morals.
2. Purity of style, etc.; see chaste a. 7, 8.
Mod. Nothing can surpass the chasteness of the ornamentation. |