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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleanness |
| Synonyms: | chastity, cleanliness, continence, holiness, innocence, piety, sanctitude |
| Antonyms: | impurity |
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| Concept: | Purity. |
| Category: | 4. Moral practice |
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-nouns
purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage, virginity., vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude.
-adjectives
pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus puerisque; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.
-phrases
"as chaste as unsunn'd snow" [Cymbeline]; "a soul as white as heaven" [Beaumonth & Fl.]; "'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity" [Milton]; "to the
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| Antonyms: | impurity |
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