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单词 chastity
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chastityn.

/ˈtʃastɪti/
Forms: Middle English chastete, Middle English–1500s chastite, chastyte, Middle English–1600s chastitie, Middle English chastitee, chastiti, 1500s chastytye, 1500s– chastity.
Etymology: Middle English chastete , -etie , < Old French (13th cent.) chastete, < Latin castitāt-em under influence of the adjective chaste . The later spelling shows further assimilation to Latin; see -ity suffix. This was the second adaptation of the Latin word in Old French; at a much earlier date it had been taken in as *castetet, *castedet, which, under the regular operation of the phonetic laws, had passed through chastedet to chasteet, chasteé, and in Old Northern French to casteed, before it was anew adapted as chasteté.
The quality or state of being chaste.
1.
a. Purity from unlawful sexual intercourse; continence.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [noun]
kasté13..
chastityc1305
chasteheada1325
temperance1340
continencec1380
chastenessc1386
virginitya1400
violet1412
castimony1490
continency1526
chastice1567
nunnery1654
brahmacharya1787
moral restraint1803
c1305 St. Edmund 83 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 73 He ne miȝte neuere fynde non of so gret chastete.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 234 Chastete, which selde where Cometh now a daies into place.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 70 Chastyte, castitas, pudicacia.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. ii. 30 So she concluded that she wold kepe her chastete.
1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) vi. vii. f. 163v The first degree of chastitie, is pure virginitie: ye second faithful matrimony.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C4v [Una]..the flowre of faith and chastity.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iv. 16 Hee hath bought a paire of cast lips of Diana..the very yce of chastity is in them. View more context for this quotation
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 75 And would instantly put her to death if he but suspected her chastity.
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iv. ii. 496 The law of chastity cannot be violated without producing evil.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 140 Chastity was the supreme virtue in the eyes of the church.
b. figurative. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catech. (1853) 124 Whose chastity standeth in this, to be dedicated to God alone.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiii. 27) Wee define the spirituall chastitie of our minde to be a stedfast abyding faith, in calling upon God, in soundnesse of hart, and in obedience to ye word.
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) i. 20 He felt the chastity of silent woe.
2. Abstinence from all sexual intercourse; virginity, celibacy.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [noun] > by choice > state or condition of
chastity?c1225
celibate1614
celibacy1663
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 5 Nan ancre ne schal..makien professiun..buten þreo þinges. þet beoð obedience. chastete. & studestaðeluestninge.
138. J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 40 Frere menours..lyuynge in obedience, wiþ-outen propre, & in chastitie.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 311 Oonli vndir counseil he [sc. Christ] profrid chastite to alle men that myȝten it take.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 85 The law wych byndyth prestys to chastyte.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iii. 21 Vpon whose Graue thou vow'dst pure chastitie . View more context for this quotation
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 26 A nun, whom love seduced from her vow of chastity.
3. Ceremonial purity. (for Latin castitas.) Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > [noun]
cleannessc890
purity?c1225
chastity1388
cleanliness1430
pureness1607
1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Macc. xiv. 36 Thei..defouliden alle thingis that weren in cumpas of hooli thingis, and ȝauen greet wounde to chastite.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 39 To enter into this rowme unlesse it be of necessitie & with devout chastitie, men make it scrupulous & are affraide.
4. Exclusion of meretricious ornament; purity of style, modesty, chasteness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > simplicity > [noun]
plainness1549
austerity1581
simplicity1593
severity1713
simplex munditiis1740
chastity1760
chasteness1889
penny-plainness1920
sabi1932
wabi1934
understatement1967
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally
decoruma1568
humoura1568
variety1597
strength1608
uniformity1625
barbarity1644
freedom1645
boldness1677
correctness1684
clinquant1711
unity1712
contrast1713
meretriciousness1727
airiness1734
pathos1739
chastity1760
vigour1774
prettyism1789
mannerism1803
serio-comic1805
actuality1812
largeness1824
local colour1829
subjectivitya1834
idealism1841
pastoralism1842
inartisticalitya1849
academicism1852
realism1856
colour contrast1858
crampedness1858
niggling1858
audacity1859
superreality1859
literalism1860
pseudo-classicism1861
sensationalism1862
sensationism1862
chocolate box1865
pseudo-classicality1867
academism1871
actualism1872
academicalism1874
ethos1875
terribilità1877
local colouring1881
neoclassicism1893
mass effect1902
attack1905
verismo1908
kitsch1921
abstraction1923
self-consciousness1932
surreality1936
tension1941
build-up1942
sprezzatura1957
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [noun] > purity
chastity1760
sanctimony1830
sanctitude1855
chasteness1889
1760 L. Sterne Serm. Yorick III. 90 In our own church..there is the greatest chastity in the external parts of religion.
a1763 W. Shenstone Odes (1765) 218 The engaging chastity of dress.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 223 Chastity and elegance of style.
5. Exclusion of excess or extravagance; moderation, restraint.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [noun] > happy medium
merry meana1475
golden mediocrity?1510
middle mean1577
happy medium1629
chastity1712
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 480. ⁋5 Indulge me, my Noble Master, in this Chastity of Renown.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
chastity clause n.
ΚΠ
1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Mar. 7/2 The question..was whether it was a condition of the allowance of £100 that a dum casta or chastity clause should be inserted.
C2.
chastity belt n. a belt designed to prevent a woman from having sexual intercourse; also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [noun] > device for preserving virginity
chastity belt1910
belt1973
1910 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 1778/1 He can inspect the Historical Cabinet, which includes..a chastity belt, the mummy of the first Mrs. Van Butchell, and pieces of the skin of England's foes once nailed to the doors of parish churches.
1922 Index-Catal. Libr. Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army 3rd ser. III. 1003/2 ‘Chastity girdle’ improvised by suspicious husband.]
1931 E. J. Dingwall Girdle of Chastity ii. 10 The virgin girdles of antiquity have nothing in common with the chastity belts.
1931 E. J. Dingwall Girdle of Chastity vi. 164 The imposition of chastity belts upon women in order to allay masculine jealousy.
1938 L. MacNeice I crossed Minch ii. xvi. 230 As medieval and even more effective than a chastity belt.
1960 Guardian 17 Dec. 4/6 A traffic plan which enclosed Oxford in, so to speak, a chastity belt.
1969 Sun 19 June 5/6 A Dorset firm who make chastity belts have been told that the belts..must carry purchase tax of 13¾ per cent. They are appealing..that the belts should pay no tax ‘like other safety equipment’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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