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chaste
/tʃeɪst/
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What does chaste mean?
adjective
- Sexually pure, abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse.
- Synonym of celibate, abstaining from any sexual intercourse.
- Synonym of virginal, innocent, having or providing no sexual knowledge or experience.
More meanings (2)
adjective
- Synonym of modest, particularly (sexism) in reference to behavior expected of sexually pure women.
- Synonym of austere, plain, unextravagant, particularly demure, sexually discreet.
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IPA pronunciation
/tʃeɪst/
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And they be so chaste, and lead so good life, as that they were religious men, and they fast all days.
For where nature has its course, as it is implanted by God, it is not possible to remain chaste without marriage.
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O, ’tis the spite of hell, the fiend’s arch-mock, To lip a wanton in a secure couch, And to suppose her chaste!
The chaste whiteness of the snow and the velvet blackness of the rocks belong to days of snowy nimbus enshrouding the horizon.
It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste mysteries.