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Definition: Chastity |
ChastityNoun1. Abstaining from sexual relations. 2. Morality with respect to sexual relations. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Chastity" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the chastity", "pure". |
Date "chastity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Celibacy may refer either to being unmarried or to sexual abstinence. A vow of celibacy is a promise not to enter into marriage but instead to consecrate one's life to service. Some writers prefer this usage of "celibacy", while others use it interchangeably as a synonym for abstinence.The old usage of this term ment "to have sexual intercourse only with one's wife".
See also:
- chastity
- asexuality
- clerical celibacy
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Celibacy."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Chastity is commonly used to mean sexual abstinence, especially abstinence from sexual intercourse, particularly for moral or religious reasons. The term can also be used to mean conformance with sexual morals, particularly faithfulness to a spouse.Chastity is a virtue expected of the faithful of many religions, including Christians and Muslims. This usually includes abstinence from sex for the unmarried, and faithfulness to a marriage partner. In many religions some groups of people are expected to practice absolute chastity, i.e. to abstain from sex completely, and remain unmarried. These groups include most monks and nuns in Christianity, and priests in the Roman Catholic church.
Some groups that propose it consider sexual abstinence as an essential means to reach a particular intellectual or spiritual condition, or they may consider that chastity allows to achieve a required self-control or a self-consciousness. In many religions chastity is imposed to the respective sacerdotal orders.
See also: Religious aspects of marriage, promiscuity, chastity belt, asexuality
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Synonyms: ChastitySynonyms: celibacy (n), sexual abstention (n), sexual morality (n), virtue (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Purity | Phrase: "as chaste as unsunn'd snow"; "a soul as white as heaven"; my brother, Chastity"; "to the pure all things are pure". |
Noun: purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage, virginity. | |
Simplicity | Noun: simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress,Noun: simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress, chastity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chastity |
| English words defined with "chastity": Bewhore ♦ celibate ♦ fall, fallen ♦ honor, honour ♦ Pudicity, purity ♦ religious ♦ Secular canoness, Stupration ♦ vower. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chastity": Agnus-castus ♦ Cross ♦ Devotion, Dicilla ♦ Orange Blossoms Worn at Weddings ♦ SPANISH PADLOCK, St. Wilfrid's Needle, Sylphs, Symbolism of Colours, Symbolism of Metals and Gems. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "chastity": Stupration. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Democratic Upas tree kills freedom and chastity. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Girardin | Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. |
Gotthold | A blush is a sign that nature hangs out, to show where chastity and honor dwell. |
Jeremy Taylor | Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. |
John Donne | Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. |
Publius Cornelius Tacitus | When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. |
Saint Augustine | Lord give me chastity -- but not yet. |
St. Augustine | Give me chastity and continence, but not just now. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Nevertheless, though hearts intoxicated with chastity may be all unconscious, nature, who can never be forgotten, is always present |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But constancy, chastity, good sense, and good nature were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Women | Egypt | Women's rights advocates also point to other discriminatory traditional or cultural attitudes and practices, such as FGM and the traditional male relative's role in enforcing chastity and chaste sexual conduct. (references) |
Egypt | Moreover, many citizens believe that FGM is an important part of maintaining female chastity, which is a part of religious tradition, and the practice is supported by some Muslim religious authorities and Islamist political activists. (references) | |
Jordan | However, one southern tribe of Egyptian origin in the small village of Rahmah near Aqaba reportedly practices FGM. One local Mufti issued a fatwa stating that FGM "safeguards women's chastity and protects them against malignant diseases by preventing fat excretions." However, the Mufti also stated that as FGM is not a requirement of Islam, women who do not undergo this procedure should not be embarrassed. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years. By many it has been believed to be identical with the crux ansata of the ancient phallic worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that, to the rites of primitive peoples. We have to-day the White Cross as a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cross as a badge of benevolent neutrality in war. Having in mind the former, the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape smites the lyre to the effect following: "Be good, be good!" the sisterhood Cry out in holy chorus, And, to dissuade from sin, parade Their various charms before us. But why, O why, has ne'er an eye Seen her of winsome manner And youthful grace and pretty face Flaunting the White Cross banner? Now where's the need of speech and screed To better our behaving? A simpler plan for saving man (But, first, is he worth saving?) Is, dears, when he declines to flee From bad thoughts that beset him, Ignores the Law as 't were a straw, And wants to sin -- don't let him. |
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| "Chastity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Chastity" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 119 | 29,501 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "chastity" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Chastity | First name Female | 5,000 | 1,300 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Chastity" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the chastity", "pure". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "chastity". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Chasity | Female | English | The chastity |
| Chastity | Female | English | The chastity |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| The following table summarizes names related to "Chastity." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Chasity | Female | English | Chastity |
| Chastity | Female | English | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "chastity": chastity belt. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "chastity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | virgjëri (Maidenhead, maidhood, virginity), thjeshtësi (bareness, commonness, informality, modesty, naivety, plainness, rusticity, simplicity, unpretentiousness), pastërti (clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, immaculacy, purity, wash house), dëlirësi (innocence, purity). (various references) | |
Arabic | عفة (prudery, pureness, righteousness, sagacity, virtue), طهارة (asepsis, candor, candour, honor, honour, innocence, prudery, pureness, purgation, purification, purity, refinement, righteousness, saintliness, tidiness, virtue), أدب عظيم, بساطة (naturalness, plainness, rusticity, simplicity, straightforwardness, triteness, unpretentiousness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | строгост (austerity, hardness, restraint, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity), чистота (clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, fairness, purity, whiteness), целомъдрие (continence, virtue), въздържание (continence, temperance), непорочност (purity, saintliness), безбрачие (celibacy, singleness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 貞" . (various references) | |
Czech | cudnost (purity), pohlavní èistota. (various references) | |
Dutch | zuiverheid (cleanliness, purity), reinheid (purity), kuisheid (chaste behaviour, cleanliness, modesty, purity), eerbaarheid (purity). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĉasteco (purity). (various references) | |
Farsi | پاکدامنی (Probity, Purity, Sacrosanctity, Virtue), نجابت (Decency, Honor, Nobility), عفت وعصمت . (various references) | |
Finnish | siveys (virtue). (various references) | |
French | chasteté, simplicité. (various references) | |
German | keuschheit (chasteness, virtue). (various references) | |
Greek | αγνότητα (immaculateness, pureness, purity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בתולים (hymen, maidenhood, virginity), טו"ר (brightness, cleanness, purity, virtue), צ יעות (meekness, modesty). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tisztaság (brightness, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, Maidenhead, neatness, purity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kesucian (holiness, sanctity), kegadisan (continence, virginity). (various references) | |
Italian | castit . (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 貞節 (fidelity, virtue), 貞淑 (feminine modesty, fidelity, virtue), 貞" (fidelity, virtue), 童貞 (Catholic nun, male virgin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | どうてい (distance, identification, itinerary, journey, male virgin, nun, process), せっそう (constancy, fidelity, honor, integrity, rhythm), じゅ"けつ (pure-blooded, pure-bred, purity), みさお (faith, fidelity, honour), ていそう (fidelity, forwarding, low class, virtue), ていしゅく (feminine modesty, fidelity, virtue), ていせつ (established theory, fidelity, virtue), ていけつ (conclusion, contract, imperial palace, imperial palace gate, purity). (various references) | |
Manx | jeenymnee, glennid (clarity, cleanliness, fineness, flatness, hygiene, purity, sharpness, thoroughness), geamneeaght (chasteness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astitychay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pureza (cleanliness, immaculacy, innocence, integrity, limpidity, purity, whiteness), castidade (abstinence, continence, purity). (various references) | |
Romanian | curãţenie (clarity, clean, cleaning, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, fairness, immaculacy, modesty, purity), cinste (appreciation, ceremony, consideration, credit, crown, esteem, fairness, faith, faithfulness, fame, Favor, favour, fealty, gift, glory, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, morality, probity, repute, respect, straight, treat, truth, uprightness, virtue), castitate (Maidenhead, maidenhood, modesty, virtue), virtute (courage, virtue), simplitate (artlessness, greenness, homeliness, modesty, plainness, purity, simple-mindedness, simpleness, simplicity), pudoare (bashfulness, decency, delicacy, shame), pudicitate, inocenţã (clean-handedness, guilelessness, guiltlessness, innocence). (various references) | |
Russian | целомудрие. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čednost neporočnost. (various references) | |
Spanish | castidad, virtud (ability, courage, energy, force, merit, morality, purity, righteousness, strength, vice, vigour, virtue). (various references) | |
Swedish | kyskhet (continence), dygd (goodness, virtue). (various references) | |
Turkish | temizlik (cleaning, cleanliness, cleanup, combout, house cleaning, hygiene, neatness, purge, purity), saflık (credulity, gullibility, ingenuousness, innocence, naivete, naivety, purity, refinement, simple-mindedness, trueness), namusluluk (probity, uprightness), iffet (modesty, purity, virtue), ırz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стриманість (continence, control, demureness, distance, offishness, restraint, reticence, self restraint, temper), скромність (bashfulness, demureness, lowliness, modesty, simplicity), чистота (candor, candour, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, dew, immaculacy, purity, virginity), цнотливість (virtue), невинність (innocence, innocency, white), незайманість (savagery, virginhood, virginity), непорочність (candor, candour, purity), доброчесність (goodness, righteousness, virtue). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chữ trinh sự giản dị, sự trong trắng (immaculacy, immaculateness, pureness, virginhood, virginity, whiteness), sự trinh tiết (continence, maidenhead), lòng trinh bạch. (various references) | |
Welsh | diweirdeb. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | castimonia, castitas, castitatem, integritate, integritatem, pudicitiae, pudicitiam, sanctimonia, sanctimoniam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "chastity": unchastity. (additional references) | |
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"Chastity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chasity, chasticy, chastidy, chastisy, chastit, chastitiy, chestid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chastity" (pronounced kha"stutē) |
| 4 | -t u t ē | entity, identity, nonentity, quantity, sanctity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: cattish, tachist. | |
-2 letters: attics, chatty, chitty, scatty, static, stitch, stithy, yachts. | |
-3 letters: aitch, attic, catty, chats, chays, chias, chits, hasty, itchy, saith, scatt, stich, tachs, tacit, tacts, tasty, yacht. | |
-4 letters: achy, acts, aits, asci, ashy, cash, cast, cats, cays, chat, chay, chia, chis, chit, cist, city, cyst, hast, hats, hays, hist, hits, ichs, itch. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-s-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: hypostatic, unchastity. | |
+3 letters: hydrostatic, hyperstatic, sympathetic. | |
+4 letters: antihysteric, cryptarithms, hydrostatics, psychiatrist, stichomythia, sympathetics, theistically, thiocyanates. | |
+5 letters: aesthetically, antihysterics, antipsychotic, asthmatically, atheistically, parasynthetic, psychiatrists, stichomythias, sympatholytic, synthetically, unsympathetic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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