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chaste adjective [ tʃeɪst ]

• abstaining from extramarital, or from all, sexual intercourse.
• "what is required of celibate Catholic clergy is to remain chaste"
Similar: virginal, virgin, intact, maidenly, maiden, unmarried, unwed, celibate, abstinent, self-restrained, self-denying, nunlike, innocent, pure, pure as the driven snow, guiltless, sinless, free of sin, uncorrupted, incorrupt, uncontaminated, undefiled, unsullied, virtuous, good, decent, moral, proper, decorous, demure, modest, wholesome, upright, squeaky clean, immaculate, vestal, continent,
Opposite: promiscuous, immoral,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French, from Latin castus .


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