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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows);
[syn: chastity, celibacy, sexual abstention]

2. morality with respect to sexual relations;
[syn: virtue, chastity, sexual morality]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chastity \Chas"ti*ty\, n. [F. chastet['e], fr. L. castitas, fr. castus. See Chaste.] 1. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. [1913 Webster] She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. --T. Carew. [1913 Webster] 2. Moral purity. [1913 Webster] So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 4. (Literature & Art) Chasteness. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

chastity n 1: abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) [syn: chastity, celibacy, sexual abstention] 2: morality with respect to sexual relations [syn: virtue, chastity, sexual morality]