(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.
Sin
Definition:
(adv., prep., & conj.) Old form of Since.
(n.) Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.
(n.) An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
(n.) A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
(n.) An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
(n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against.
(n.) To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Molsidomine and SIN-1 were tested in a thrombosis model in which thrombi are produced in small mesenteric vessels.
(2) These results support a hypothesis which proposes that ancestral SIN virus diverged into two distinct groups.
(3) Our studies show that SIN-1 and C87-3754 exert beneficial effects in a 6-h model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion.
(4) Antibodies to all viruses were detected, and namely in these frequencies: SIN 0.9%, WN 16.9%, TAH 41.5%, CVO 23.1% and TBE 8.5%.
(5) As the later Spark might have said, a mortal sin against the commandment to love beauty wherever one may find it.
(6) The direct acting stimulants of soluble guanylate cyclase, sodium nitroprusside and SIN-1 (3-morpholino-sydnonimine), also increased the cGMP content of endothelial cells by 9.4 and 7.2 times, respectively.
(7) In superfused precontracted strips of rabbit aorta, methylene blue (MeB) or pyocyanin (Pyo, 1-hydroxy-5-methyl phenazinum betaine) at concentrations of 1-10 microM inhibited relaxations induced by endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP) or 3-morpholino-sydnonimine (SIN-1).
(8) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
(9) These prostanoids were measured in platelets and endothelial cells alone or during their interaction, in the absence or presence of SIN-1.
(10) The haemodynamic effects of N-carboxy-3-morpholino-sydronimine-ethylester (molsidomine, SIN 10, Corvaton) were studied in anaesthetized mongrel dogs.
(11) The results indicated that both Sin B and Sal have inductive actions on drug metabolizing-phase I and phase II enzymes in mice and rats.
(12) Ten women with SIN were bilaterally salpingectomized.
(13) Analysis of the relationship between the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of SIN-1 suggests that an active metabolites is involved.
(14) The guanidine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) content (an index of EDRF production) was determined by radioimmunoassay under basal conditions and after acetylcholine (10(-5) M), bradykinin (10(-5) M) and SIN-1 (10(-4) M) stimulation.
(15) sin- mutants (defining six genes) were identified because they express HO in the absence of particular SWI products.
(16) We studied the effects of intracoronary injections of SIN-1 (0.8 mg), the active metabolite of molsidomine, on coronary artery diameters and coronary stenoses.
(17) Sessions included "naming the sin, lifting the shame" and "normal sinfulness or a sickness".
(18) The nitric oxide donor compound, 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1), was equipotent at relaxing the central and peripheral airways.
(19) Oxyhaemoglobin used for the assay of NO, inhibited the relaxation by SIN-1, but did not reduce vessel relaxations induced by GTN or iloprost, a stable prostacyclin analogue.
(20) A degraded SIN-1 solution that did not release NO was unable to block NMDA receptors.