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Definition of chastity in English: chastitynoun ˈtʃastɪtiˈtʃæstədi mass nounThe state or practice of refraining from extramarital, or especially from all, sexual intercourse. Example sentencesExamples - The authors also fail to understand that for Jesuits chastity is a way of relating to God, not just to other people.
- Imagine a particularly ascetic monastic order, whose rule not only enjoins chastity, but forbids sexual desire.
- Religion is an intensely personal matter and is as sacrosanct as chastity.
- During that period, a woman was more concerned with preserving her chastity than with saving her life.
- We have certain core issues we lobby on, including the sanctity of innocent human life, chastity, marriage and the traditional family.
- What he counsels as the proper Christian behavior for them is chastity.
- Male and female members of religious orders took a vow of chastity and ordained priests were obligated to celibacy.
- It is mystical and ascetic, with the sisters observing vows of poverty, chastity and silence.
- During that time she has had immense difficulty with her vows of chastity and obedience.
- Mr Cousins sees in this the disorderly, self-defeating aspects of both sexual desire and chastity.
- In 1534 they all swore an oath of poverty, chastity and obedience to the pope.
- For the early Christian writers the tree has even become the symbol of chastity.
- Programs are screened for scenes that contradict the codes of sexual chastity and religious observance.
- In spite of being single and professing the vow of chastity as a nun, I sometimes feel this way.
- When Christianity took over, the veil was changed to represent chastity and modesty.
- Horrified and overcome by guilt, Kate prays constantly for forgiveness and chastity.
- For example, some groups stressed premarital chastity more than others did.
- Girls are expected to display a number of feminine virtues, particularly modesty and chastity.
- You owe him civil behavior, consideration, and decorum, not a vow of chastity.
- The biblical virtues of modesty, chivalry, chastity and fidelity are ignored.
Synonyms celibacy, chasteness, virginity, abstinence, self-restraint, self-denial singleness, maidenhood, the unmarried state innocence, purity, virtue, goodness, decency, morality, decorum, modesty, wholesomeness Christianity immaculateness rare continence
Origin Middle English: from Old French chastete, from Latin castitas, from castus 'morally pure' (see chaste). Definition of chastity in US English: chastitynounˈtʃæstədiˈCHastədē The state or practice of refraining from extramarital, or especially from all, sexual intercourse. Example sentencesExamples - Imagine a particularly ascetic monastic order, whose rule not only enjoins chastity, but forbids sexual desire.
- You owe him civil behavior, consideration, and decorum, not a vow of chastity.
- In 1534 they all swore an oath of poverty, chastity and obedience to the pope.
- We have certain core issues we lobby on, including the sanctity of innocent human life, chastity, marriage and the traditional family.
- Girls are expected to display a number of feminine virtues, particularly modesty and chastity.
- Mr Cousins sees in this the disorderly, self-defeating aspects of both sexual desire and chastity.
- During that time she has had immense difficulty with her vows of chastity and obedience.
- It is mystical and ascetic, with the sisters observing vows of poverty, chastity and silence.
- Programs are screened for scenes that contradict the codes of sexual chastity and religious observance.
- Male and female members of religious orders took a vow of chastity and ordained priests were obligated to celibacy.
- The authors also fail to understand that for Jesuits chastity is a way of relating to God, not just to other people.
- Horrified and overcome by guilt, Kate prays constantly for forgiveness and chastity.
- For example, some groups stressed premarital chastity more than others did.
- In spite of being single and professing the vow of chastity as a nun, I sometimes feel this way.
- When Christianity took over, the veil was changed to represent chastity and modesty.
- What he counsels as the proper Christian behavior for them is chastity.
- For the early Christian writers the tree has even become the symbol of chastity.
- During that period, a woman was more concerned with preserving her chastity than with saving her life.
- Religion is an intensely personal matter and is as sacrosanct as chastity.
- The biblical virtues of modesty, chivalry, chastity and fidelity are ignored.
Synonyms celibacy, chasteness, virginity, abstinence, self-restraint, self-denial
Origin Middle English: from Old French chastete, from Latin castitas, from castus ‘morally pure’ (see chaste). |