

Definition of Chastity


  1. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
  2. Moral purity.
  3. The unmarried life; celibacy.
  4. Chasteness.

Chastity Quotations

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

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
George Chapman

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Alex Comfort

Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.
Jakob Bohme
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Chastity Translations

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