chastity — ozdic

Collocations

4

ADJ.

awful, modern, respected

VERB + CHASTITY

give, name, price, vow

CHASTITY + NOUN

bono, continence, innocence, men's, virginity, virtue, youth

PREP.

from, in, off

Definitions

noun

1

The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.

The monk took a vow of chastity.

vow of chastity

name

1

A female given name from English from the virtue chastity.

Since she was saddled with that awful name, Chastity Bono has given her parents much grief over it. "It helps to get into a show or something, but most of the time it's a pain," she told McCall's. The girl blames mama Cher who was inspired by a movie.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vo

celibacy

noun — morality with respect to sexual relations

virtue

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

6

01

The monk took a vow of chastity.

Wiktionary

02

vow of chastity

Wiktionary

03

virtue and chastity

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04

Since she was saddled with that awful name, Chastity Bono has given her parents much grief over it. "It helps to get into a show or something, but most of the time it's a pain," she told McCall's. The

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05

God, please give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Tatoeba · #391854

06

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies.

Tatoeba · #733831

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, chastity is marked as rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.