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- noun Plural form of
chastity .
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Examples
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Somehow the sudden lapses of respected people, odd indecorums, backbitings, bigamies, embezzlements, and attempted chastities -- the surprising leaps they make now and then out of propriety into the police-courts -- somehow news-items of this kind do not altogether -- how shall I put it?
More Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907
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It was an outrage to all the meek reticences and chastities of her spirit.
Superseded May Sinclair 1904
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