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chastity

noun

1 chastity

Abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows).

synonyms: celibacy, sexual abstention.

Roget 849: simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress, chastity.   

Dutch: zedigheid, celibaat, onthouding
Polish: celibat

2 chastity

Morality with respect to sexual relations.

synonyms: sexual morality, virtue.

Roget 960: purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage, virginity.    ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Atticism, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, absoluteness, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, appropriateness, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy ... show more.

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