(n.) The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
(n.) Moral purity.
(n.) The unmarried life; celibacy.
(n.) Chasteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are those who have chosen a following of Jesus that imitates his life in obedience to the Father, poverty, community life and chastity.
(2) The organisation has been a persistent and virulent opponent of abortion rights and LGBT legal rights; it actively opposed safer sex campaigns at the height of the Aids crisis, advocating chastity as an alternative.
(3) Diana is a burrnesha , one of Albania's last sworn virgins , women who opted to live as men to escape the domination of a patriarchal system, at the cost of taking a vow of virginity and chastity.
(4) 5 The Ring Writer Trey Parker forays into teen chastity; it weaves in a foul-mouthed, sadistic Mickey Mouse.
(5) They take vows of poverty and chastity, but they are not ordained, which is why they have no power," said Kenneth Briggs, author of Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns .
(6) Clean break England's new skipper's line on chastity: 2007 – Rio denies organising the £4k-per-head Man United Christmas party, which was set up, a club insider told the press, "for players only: strictly no wives or girlfriends.
(7) The area also placed a heavy emphasis on female chastity, said Ye Ziling, who has interviewed many survivors , possibly helping to ensure the women's vows were respected.
(8) Canine chastity belt In 1903, German Baroness Margarethe Johanne Christianne Marie von Heyden and her husband, anxious to maintain the purity of the pedigree of their dogs, designed a device to prevent "coition in the case of bitches and other female animals more particularly for the purpose of preventing cross-breeding".
(9) Child marriage is a tradition that is practised to preserve a girl's chastity, to strengthen ties between families and as a response to poverty.
(10) Members of religious orders take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
(11) The promise of marriage could be undone without dishonour by taking a vow of chastity.
(12) On the vow of chastity Religious men and women are prophets.
(13) In 2004, in the city of Neka, a 16-year-old girl, Atefah Rajabi Sahaaleh, who had been raped several times, was convicted and executed for "crimes against chastity" and "adultery".
(14) Commentators on Twitter suggested that the mayor’s next move would be to issue chastity belts or burqas.
(15) In a recent issue of Isis’s English language magazine, Dabiq , an article condemns the supposed perversion of the western way of life, stating that it has destroyed modesty and chastity, causing women to abandon motherhood, wifehood, femininity, and heterosexuality.
(16) And there is just as surely something psychological at the bottom of Polanski's fear of female privacy, his apparent inability to distinguish between a belt and a chastity belt.
(17) Others blame ineffectual laws, lax policing, India’s deep seated patriarchal system and outmoded religious beliefs that place the burden of chastity squarely on women’s shoulders.
(18) I was going to wear a chastity belt today as a symbol of sexual slavery but I don't want to use a gimmicky prop to represent a serious act of oppression against the female population of this island.
(19) 21.5% were aware of the implications of the Adolescent Family Life Act designed to promote premarital chastity.
(20) For her family, who believed like many Egyptians that the mutilation would safeguard her chastity, the day was cause for celebration.
Modesty
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.
(n.) Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It is not a likeable work," ran one unfavourable review, "containing little humour or tenderness or modesty.
(2) Clearly recovered from her attack of British modesty, she jumps out of an SUV in denim shorts and a crop top, her voice almost completely lost.
(3) Against all the odds, he almost single-handedly rescued hundreds of children, mostly Jewish, from the Nazis – an enduring example of the difference that good people can make even in the darkest of times.” “Because of his modesty, this astonishing contribution only came to light many years later.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sir Nicholas Winton meeting some of the (now grown up) children he helped save.
(4) This was a galaxy-spanning utopia whose name was chosen for its self-deprecating modesty, rather than something grandiose like the Federation or the Empire.
(5) Principal component analysis was used to identify five clothing dimensions (experimentation, self-enhancement, conformity, economics and practicality, and modesty), two body satisfaction dimensions (face and extremities, midsection and weight), and two eating dimensions (drive for thinness and binging).
(6) Whatever veiled women say about modesty, tradition or feeling closer to God, we in the £5-aspirant group worry that they are oppressed: that it is about being hidden and silenced.
(7) "The gentleman, opening the circular, hinged portcullis on the front of his helmet, offered his services; and perceiving that her modesty declined what her situation rendered necessary, took her up in his arms without further delay and carried her down the hill."
(8) And when you see Portman naked and leaning in profile on a dresser, she's posed deliberately, artfully, bony elbows protecting her modesty.
(9) Their letter, written in terms of false modesty, almost as if their aim was to protect Mr Brown, not destroy him, lacked any ideological substance.
(10) Interviews were conducted with 85 Puerto-Rican-born women encountered in one urban community in the United States concerning their obstetrical and gynecological preventive health participation, modesty pattern, and feelings of being male dominated.
(11) Mention of it brings on another attack of modesty – "No matter how bad a music video, the song remains intact" – but his videos are weird and intriguing.
(12) New York Times editors don't do modesty, Abramson no exception.
(13) His modesty showed when he declined an invitation to attend the ceremonies marking the 1994 signing of the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty.
(14) Those sentiments had been echoed in the seemingly very different context of Qom, the centre of Shia religious studies, where most women move about in full-length black cloaks – the chadors that are the ultimate expression of Shia modesty.
(15) But the modesty isn’t the problem, it’s the listening.
(16) It received 80,000 responses and delivered a landmark 630-page report in 29 days, calling for the law concerning sexual violence to be modernised, removing terms such as “intent to outrage her modesty”.
(17) When I take Viagra, it stands up.” B: “My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.” On modesty A: “I do not have brilliance, wit or smartness.
(18) In a small side room at the Guardian, with Al Pacino glowering from a poster above us, James Corden is performing a masterclass in modesty.
(19) Prestige was regained by workers, who originally were thought to have lost their honor by violating the cultural patterns of seclusion and modesty.
(20) We conjecture that for highly religious women modernising factors raise the risk and temptation in women’s environments that imperil their reputation for modesty: veiling would then be a strategic response, a form either of commitment to prevent the breach of religious norms or of signalling women’s piety to their communities.