CHASTE: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | cheyst
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| Matching Terms: | | Chast, Chastely, Chasten, Chastened, Chastener, chasteness, chastening, Chastisable, chastise, chastised, Chastisement, Chastiser, Chastity
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- [adj] morally pure especially not having experienced sexual intercourse; "a holy woman innocent and chaste"
- [adj] abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse
- [adj] pure and simple in design or style; "a chaste border of conventionalized flowers"
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| | Synonyms: | | celibate, continent, plain, pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous |
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| | Antonyms: | | unchaste | | |
| | See Also: | | moral | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Chaste\ (ch[=a]st), a. [F. chaste, from L. castus pure,
chaste; cf. Gr. kaqaro`s pure, Skr. [,c]udth to purify.]
1. Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous;
continent. ``As chaste as Diana.'' --Shak.
Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced.
--Milton.
2. Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and
obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a
chaste mind; chaste eyes.
3. Pure in design and expression; correct; free from
barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste
style in composition or art.
That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence,
the Book of Common Prayer. --Macaulay.
4. Unmarried. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Syn: Undefiled; pure; virtuous; continent; immaculate;
spotless.
{Chaste tree}. Same as {Agnus castus}.
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