chastity

• "As for her vaunted chastity, that is neither here nor there,--that may or may not be fictitious. —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
• Still others will try to convince you that chastity is an old superstition, and that there is nothing wrong in sexual relations. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
• The panegyrist made most feeling allusion to the occasion, when the lamented dead took "the profession of those holy vows, those tremendous vows, those eternal vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.... Thank God, he kept those vows to the end Father O'Brien was next sent to the Redemptorist Theological Seminary of Ilchester, Md., to further pursue the great studies that fitted him for his calling It often required an express command of his superiors to take him from his books that his body might not succumb, and the mind gain the necessary rest. —  Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
• He raised his excesses to the height by inveighing against the vow of chastity, and in marrying publicly Catherine de Bore, a nun, whom he enticed, with eight others, from their convents. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
• I do not, of course, mean anything so inconceivable as that he questioned the loveliness of the "pure in heart"; I mean merely that he questioned the artificial value which has been set upon physical chastity--and that when departure from this was the circumstance through which he had to show the more essential purity, his instinctive scepticism drove him to the forcing of a note which was not really native to his voice. —  Browning's Heroines

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