chaste
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chaste
- /t͡ʃeɪst/
- /t͡ʃæst/ rare
Sounds like chased · Rhymes with -eɪst, -æst
Where it comes from
From Middle English chaste, from Old French chaste (“morally pure”), from Latin castus (“pure”).
adjective chaster · chastest
- Sexually pure, abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse. When we consider the great excellence of chaste wedlock, Venerable Brethren, it appears all the more regrettable that particularly in our day we should witness this divine institution often scorned and on every side degraded.
- Synonym of celibate, abstaining from any sexual intercourse. Theirs was a chaste marriage, cold and sexless.
- Synonym of virginal, innocent, having or providing no sexual knowledge or experience. Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open To his vnmaſtred importunity.
- Synonym of modest, particularly (sexism) in reference to behavior expected of sexually pure women. ... but the cars of chaste women have either coverings thrown over them, or white sheets hung over; for instance, on the cars of the female part of the family of the deceased Nawabs Khanduran and Muzaffar Khan, there used generally to be fastened thick dirty white cloths, and in like manner also on
- Synonym of austere, plain, unextravagant, particularly demure, sexually discreet. The chaste style of most early modern novels is elegant but intensely boring, particularly for teenagers too inexperienced to effectively read between the lines.
