English-Thai Dictionary

chastity

N การ ถือ พรหมจรรย์  การ ละเว้น เรื่อง เพศ  พรหมจรรย์  ความ เป็น พรหมจรรย์  ความบริสุทธิ์  celibacy sexual abstention sexual morality virtue kan-tue-prom-ma-jan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHASTITY

n. 1. Purity of the body; freedom from all unlawful commerce of sexes. Before marriage, purity from all commerce of sexes; after marriage, fidelity to the marriage bed.
2. Freedom from obscenity, as in language or conversation.
3. Freedom from bad mixture; purity in words and phrases.
4. Purity; unadulterated state; as the chastity of the gospel.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CHASTITY

Chas "ti *ty, n. Etym: [F. chasteté, fr. L. castitas, fr. castus. See Chaste. ]

 

1. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. She. .. hath preserved her spotless chastity. T. Carew.

 

2. Moral purity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton.

 

3. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs. ] Chaucer.

 

4. (Literature & Art )

 

Defn: Chasteness.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

chastity

chas ti ty |ˈCHastətē ˈtʃæstədi | ▶noun the state or practice of refraining from extramarital, or esp. from all, sexual intercourse: vows of chastity. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French chastete, from Latin castitas, from castus ‘morally pure ’ (see chaste ).

 

chastity belt

chas ti ty belt |ˈtʃæstədi bɛlt | ▶noun historical a garment or device designed to prevent a woman from having sexual intercourse.

 

Oxford Dictionary

chastity

chas |tity |ˈtʃastɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the state or practice of refraining from extramarital, or especially from all, sexual intercourse: vows of chastity. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French chastete, from Latin castitas, from castus ‘morally pure ’ (see chaste ).

 

chastity belt

chas |tity belt ▶noun historical a garment or device designed to prevent the woman wearing it from having sexual intercourse.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

chastity

chastity noun a vow of chastity: celibacy, chasteness, virginity, abstinence, self-restraint, self-denial, continence; innocence, purity, virtue, morality.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

chastity

chastity noun the Vestals were sworn to a life of chastity: celibacy, chasteness, virginity, abstinence, self-restraint, self-denial; singleness, maidenhood, the unmarried state; innocence, purity, virtue, goodness, decency, morality, decorum, modesty, wholesomeness; Christianity immaculateness; rare continence. ANTONYMS promiscuity, immorality.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

chastity

chas ti ty /tʃǽstəti /名詞 U 1 貞操, 純潔, 清純 .2 (文体などの )素朴さ, 上品さ .～́ b è lt 貞操帯 .