What does "chastity" mean?
Chastity: Moral purity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton.
Additional senses
- 2.The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- 3.(Literature & Art) Chasteness.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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