What's the difference between chasteness and restraint?

Chasteness


Definition:

  • (n.) Chastity; purity.
  • (n.) Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were also remote from Chast, not particularly nurturing, and very much parents, not friends.
  • (2) Watson, of Harry Potter fame, tweeted a photograph of herself doubled up in stitches and linking to the Guardian report of the Twitter backlash against Turkish deputy prime minister Bülent Arinç, who said in a speech to mark Eid al-Fitr on Monday that women should be "chaste", know the difference between public and private, and "she should not laugh in public".
  • (3) Chast did all the things one has to do; she put them somewhere decent and clean.
  • (4) As her parents lay dying, Chast dragged herself back to their apartment and started the grim task of sifting through a lifetime of worthless possessions.
  • (5) We are in the kitchen of Chast's house, overlooking her garden.
  • (6) Awareness campaigns on the dangers of unprotected sex largely target the young, while the media continues to perpetuate the stereotype of older people as impotent and chaste or perverted and figures of ridicule.
  • (7) Those who know and love Chast's work think of her as the queen of family angst, a brilliant chronicler of domestic strife, and the account of her parents' last year – as they move from the apartment, to hospital, to a care home in Connecticut – is an extraordinary record of the love, fury and ambivalence that often characterises these experiences.
  • (8) Her lurid totem with black lacy detailing edged it over Richard’s more chaste mill and Luis’s industrial mechanism.
  • (9) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
  • (10) "Her emotions were very primary colours," says Chast.
  • (11) However, in the hot summer of 1912 an initially chaste and awkward relationship, punctuated with readings of Housman poems and stilted conversations about Eros, swiftly took wing.
  • (12) Roz Chast explores her relationship with her parents in her graphic memoir.
  • (13) Her father died first, aged 95, and as Chast's relationship with him had been closer, she was less riven by guilt than she was during her mother's last days.
  • (14) Chast had done right by them, but she was still sick with regret after they were gone.
  • (15) 2) Strictness in child rearing, shielding the child from any knowledge of sexual relations and its possible outcome in the hope of keeping her chaste but in fact often leading to early sexual relations.
  • (16) And so, when Chast's mother injured herself in a fall and her father started showing signs of dementia, Chast moved them to a care home near her house, where the contrast in weekly expenditure was so horrifying, she says, you could only laugh.
  • (17) But the feelings inside it would be false, because what all of us, young and old, felt was embarrassment and, on my part, sympathy for a father whose belief in chaste language had just been discounted as an unsophisticated prejudice by a famous person – an intellectual even, and we tended to like those – on television.
  • (18) Anne later said they had played cards in the bed, and told a lady-in-waiting that her husband was a perfect gentleman, giving her a greeting and a chaste kiss each night and before he left her in the morning.
  • (19) The first indication Roz Chast had that her elderly parents weren't coping was when she noticed the level of grime in their apartment.
  • (20) Nymphomaniac stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe, who recounts her life story to a chaste, lonely bachelor named Seligman, played by Stellan Skarsgård.

Restraint


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.
  • (n.) The state of being restrained.
  • (n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
  • (2) The current study used the restraint model of stress ulceration to compare the effects of a more potent prostaglandin analogue, 16,16-dimethyl prostaglandin E2, with hyperosmolar glucose and antacids.
  • (3) We assessed the relative restraints that are provided by fourteen currently available functional knee-braces, using six limbs in cadavera.
  • (4) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
  • (5) Rats that were subjected to restraint stress for 18 h were found to have reduced myocardial glycogen and blood sugar levels and showed histological changes in heart and adrenals.
  • (6) Instead of shedding jobs, many employers seem to be favouring pay restraint and reduced working hours as a means of controlling costs."
  • (7) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
  • (8) Amid calls for restraint from senior politicians and police, the prime minister, Peter O’Neill has threatened to “terminate” the position of anyone going against the government.
  • (9) Although B-PELLET rats had normal basal morning ACTH concentrations 5 days after surgery, they exhibited augmented and sustained ACTH responses to five different ACTH-releasing stimuli (injection, restraint, chlorpromazine, and, under pentobarbital anesthesia, morphine or sham adrenalectomy).
  • (10) Restraint produced regional losses of bone most obviously in the proximal tibia.
  • (11) The committee responses delineated emerging standards governing specific areas of animal use, such as antibody production, induced disease, surgery, physical restraint, and behavioral conditioning.
  • (12) Nine of the groups were fed nutrient solutions of different compositions, antacid and sucralfate through orogastric tube during induction of stress ulcer by restraint and a cold ambient temperature.
  • (13) These observations are rationalized taking into account the ionic radii and coordination numbers of the cations and the conformational restraints of valinomycin molecules.
  • (14) Even without public spending restraint, those pressures will only increase as our population ages.
  • (15) The data revealed striking sex differences in body image, restraint and food attitudes, even in the youngest age group (12 to 13 years).
  • (16) Does the restraint required for head or nose-only exposure of rodents to inhaled aerosols or gases alter their breathing pattern?
  • (17) Behavioral problems resulting in the use of physical restraint is a clinical problem seen in the acute phase of recovery from cerebral contusion.
  • (18) Later-born cohorts were lower in Restraint and higher in Ascendance than early-born cohorts.
  • (19) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.
  • (20) The rate of AChE activity restoration in Gd-7 treated axolotl embryo depends on the level of the enzyme restraint and the stage of the embryo development.

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