chaste

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Who that has read Shelley does not recollect scraps worthy to stand by Ariel's song--chaste, simple, unutterably musical?

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  1. adjective Morally pure in thought or conduct; decent and modest.
  2. adjective Not having experienced sexual intercourse; virginal.
  3. adjective Abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse.

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  • There are more studies concerning green tea and prostate cancer than there are concerning breast cancers, but other plant extracts, such as chaste-berry, have been shown to inhibit the growth of breast, ovarian, cervical and colon cancer-cells. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • We are taught by our parents to be honest, chaste, and benevolent, doing good to all men.
  • People confuse the words chaste and virginity with prude all the time -- majority don't understand that chaste is actually saying yes as well as no. —  Modestly Yours
  • If keeping herself chaste is the responsibility of the woman then she has the right to demand this from the men as well. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • * This dual temperament rendered her a goddess of uncertain attributes and of violent contrasts; at times reserved and chaste, at other times shameless and dissolute, but always cruel, always barren, for the countless multitude of her excesses for ever shut her out from motherhood: she conceives without ceasing, but never brings forth children. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12)
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin castus; see kes- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English chaste, chast, from Old French chaste, caste, French chaste = Provencal cast = Spanish Portuguese Italian casto, from Latin castus, chaste, pure, for *cadtus, akin to Greek καθαρός, Dor. κοθαρός, pure: see cathartic; cf. Sanskrit çuddha, pure, past participle, from ✓ çudh or çundh, purify.
  2. from Middle English chasten, chastien, chastyen, often (without infinitive suffix -en) chasty, chasti, from Old French chastier, castier, French châtier = Provencal castiar, chastiar = Spanish Portuguese castigar = Italian castigare (also introduced as an ecclesiastical word into early Teutonic, Old High German chestigōn, Middle High German kestigen, kastīgen, German kasteien = Dutch kastijden), from Latin castigare, make pure, chasten, chastise: see castigate and chastise, and cf. chasten.
 

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