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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for chastity:
1. WordNet® 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]
2. 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.
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            She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. --T.
                                                  Carew.
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   2. Moral purity.
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            So dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
            That, when a soul is found sicerely so
            A thousand liveried angels lackey her. --Milton.
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   3. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   4. (Literature & Art) Chasteness.
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