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How to pronounce chastity in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms celibacy, sexual abstention
Type of abstinence
Derivation chaste
Type Words
Synonyms sexual morality, virtue
Type of morality
Has types pureness, honour, honor, purity
Derivation chaste

Examples of chastity

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The modern temper finds more humor than honor in struggles to preserve chastity.
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A life of poverty, chastity and obedience wasn't really what I was looking for.
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Since then, Renwick has had little time to produce anything but chastity belts.
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They lived a life of poverty and chastity, and took care of the sick and the old.
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Some members take vows of obedience, chastity and poverty and live at the center.
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I don't know if your new chastity requires that you save yourself for marriage.
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This is because she has sworn chastity, and has thus spurned the Wunderer's love.
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You shall maintain chastity, not committing adultery, nor taking secret lovers.
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Chastity is one of the five virtues in the fundamental ethical code of Jainism.
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More examples
  • Abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)
  • Virtue: morality with respect to sexual relations
  • (chaste) morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste"
  • (chaste) pure and simple in design or style; "a chaste border of conventionalized flowers"
  • Chastity is sexual behavior of a man or woman acceptable to the moral norms and guidelines of a culture, civilization, or religion.
  • Chastity is both the name of a comic book character and series in which she is primarily featured. It was produced and published by Chaos! Comics and currently owned by Tales of Wonder.
  • Chastity is a 1969 drama romance film starring American singer-actress Cher.
  • Chastity is the first soundtrack album by American singer-actess Cher, released on June 1969 by Atco. It was released to promote and accompany the 1969 motion picture, Chastity. The album was a commercial failure.
  • (The Chaste) The Chaste is a fictional mystical martial arts enclave led by Stick, that was created by Frank Miller in the pages of Daredevil for Marvel Comics. The Chaste live in a remote wilderness location that can only be accessed by climbing "The Wall", a sheer cliff. ...