Definition of Chastity

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Definition of Chastity
	Chastity The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. Moral purity. The unmarried life; celibacy. Chasteness. Related Definitions: Being, Body, Celibacy, Chaste, Chasteness, Freedom, From, Intercourse, Life, Moral, Of, Purity, Sexual, State, The, Unlawful

Chastity Quotations

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Saint Augustine

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous Huxley

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France

Chastity Translations

chastity in German is Keuschheit
chastity in Spanish is castidad
chastity in Swedish is kyskhet, dygd

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