chaste

English

/tʃeɪst/

adj
Definitions
  • Abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse.
  • Virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience.
  • Austere, simple, undecorative.
  • Decent, modest, morally pure.

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chaste (morally pure) derived from Latin castus (pure, pious, clean, virtuous, unpolluted, chaste).

Origin

Latin

castus

Gloss

pure, pious, clean, virtuous, unpolluted, chaste

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Property

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