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noun

Chastity n.

The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. "She... hath preserved her spotless chastity."

Moral purity. "So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her."

The unmarried life; celibacy. (Obs.)

(Literature & Art) Chasteness.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chastity" Quotes from Famous Books

... pollute your own body by yielding it up to a man you have ceased to desire; don't do injustice to your own prospective children by giving them a father whom you no longer respect, or admire, or yearn for. Guard your chastity well. Be mine as much as you will, as long as you will, to such extent as you will, but before all things be your own; embrace and follow every instinct of pure love that nature, our mother, has imparted within you." No woman, in turn, is truly civilized till she ...

— The Woman Who Did • Grant Allen

... me believe that a high-bred English lady is the most complete of all Heaven's subjects in this world. In whom else do you see so much grace, and so much virtue; so much faith, and so much tenderness; with such a perfect refinement and chastity? And by high-bred ladies I don't mean duchesses and countesses. Be they ever so high in station, they can be but ladies, and no more. But almost every man who lives in the world has the happiness, let us hope, of counting a few such persons ...

— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

... dignity and moral elevation to a degraded and repellent theme. In the old versions Isabella yields her virtue as the price of her brother's life. The central fact of Shakespeare's play is Isabella's inflexible and unconditional chastity. Other of Shakespeare's alterations, like the Duke's abrupt proposal to marry Isabella, seem hastily conceived. But his creation of the pathetic character of Mariana 'of the moated grange'—the legally affianced bride of Angelo, ...

— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee

... Basilikon remained unchanged, Christian art added steeples and cupolas to increase the solemnity of the impression. The most perfect building of the kind is, without doubt, the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. For chastity and purity of style, it can never be surpassed. The numerous churches erected by ostentation and devotion in basilikon form are all inferior to that incomparable temple. Many, it is true, have been disfigured, robbed, and half-burned; ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various

... prostitution will die a natural death. Let woman beware that her influence is of the purest and highest; let her spiritual nature be so attractive that man will be drawn toward it. Forever "the eternal womanly draweth man" onward and upward. Soul unity will become the rule when the same chastity and purity are demanded of the sexes alike. Woman's chastity is never secure as long as there are two standards ...

— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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