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chastity 音标拼音: [tʃ'æstəti] n. 纯洁,贞操 纯洁,贞操 chastity n 1: abstaining from sexual relations ( as because of religious vows) [ synonym: { chastity}, { celibacy}, { sexual abstention}] 2: morality with respect to sexual relations [ synonym: { virtue}, { chastity}, { sexual morality}] 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] 102 Moby Thesaurus words for " chastity": Atticism, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, absoluteness, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, appropriateness, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy, chasteness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, comeliness, continence, correctness, defectlessness, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, elegance, elegancy, eschewal, fast, faultlessness, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fish day, fittingness, flawlessness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, forbearance, fruitarianism, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, guiltlessness, gymnosophy, immaculacy, immaculateness, impeccability, infallibility, innocence, limpidity, lucidity, maidenhead, maidenhood, naturalness, neatness, nephalism, pellucidity, perfection, perspicuity, plain living, plainness, polish, propriety, purity, refinement, refraining, refrainment, restraint, seemliness, self- restraint, sexual abstinence, simple diet, simplicity, sinlessness, smoothness, spare diet, spotlessness, stainlessness, straightforwardness, taintlessness, taste, tastefulness, teetotalism, terseness, the pledge, total abstinence, unaffectedness, vegetarianism, virginity, virtue |
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