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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celibacy, chastity |
| Synonyms: | abstinence, chasteness, cleanness, continence, honor, immaculacy, innocence, integrity, maidenhood, purity, restraint, sinlessness, spotlessness, virtue |
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| Main Entry: | chastity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celibacy, purity |
| Synonyms: | abstemiousness, abstinence, chasteness, cleanness, continence, decency, demureness, devotion, honor, immaculacy, innocence, integrity, modesty, monogamy, morality, naiveté, restraint, singleness, sinlessness, spotlessness, temperance, uprightness, virginity, virtue |
| Antonyms: | dirtiness, fornication |
| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chastity |
| Synonyms: | abstemiousness, continence, honor, virginity, virtue |
| Main Entry: | virtuousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chastity |
| Synonyms: | abstemiousness, abstinence, chasteness, cleanness, continence, decency, demureness, devotion, honor, immaculacy, innocence, integrity, modesty, monogamy, morality, naiveté, purity, restraint, singleness, sinlessness, spotlessness, temperance, uprightness, virginity, virtue |
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| Main Entry: | celibacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2, noun3, noun |
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artistic, attic, chaste, ciceronian, classical, continent, correct, decent, decorous, delicate, easy, elegant, euphemistic, euphonious, felicitous, graceful, happy, honest, intemerate, jannock, meracious, modest, natural, neat, neatly expressed, neatly put, numerose, platonic, polished, pristine, pure, readable, rhythmical, saxon, smectic, tripping, unaffected, undefiled, unlabored, virtuous, well put
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| Concept: | Celibacy. |
| Category: | 1. Social Affections |
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-nouns
celibacy, singleness, single blessedness; bachelorhood, bachelorship; misogamy, misogyny., virginity, pucelage; maidenhood, maidenhead., unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist, old bachelor; misogamist, misogynist; monogamist; monk., unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden, virgin, femme sole, old maid; bachelor girl, girl bachelor; nun.
-verbs
live single.
-adjectives
unmarried, unwedded; wifeless, spouseless; single.
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| Antonyms: | marriage |
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| Concept: | Purity. |
| Category: | 4. Moral practice |
| Synonyms: |
-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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