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as in purity
the quality or state of being morally pure
a saint who is often held up as a model of chastity
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as in celibacy
abstention from sexual intercourse
vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
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Recent Examples of chastity
The residents of the house had taken vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
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Raul A. Reyes, NBC news, 29 June 2025
He’s taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and lived in a community with other priests.
—Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2025
The dismissal came after a more than year long dispute between the nuns and the diocese that began when Olson investigated a report that the nuns’ leader, the Rev. Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach, broke her chastity vows with a priest from outside the diocese.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2025
This is certainly true with regard to his chastity, which Catholic writers extol in devotional literature.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for chastity
Raul A. Reyes, NBC news, 29 June 2025
He’s taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and lived in a community with other priests.
—Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2025
The dismissal came after a more than year long dispute between the nuns and the diocese that began when Olson investigated a report that the nuns’ leader, the Rev. Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach, broke her chastity vows with a priest from outside the diocese.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2025
This is certainly true with regard to his chastity, which Catholic writers extol in devotional literature.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chastity
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Additionally, its purple (not blue) color, as well as its sheer mass at that level of purity means that in this stone’s formation, the conditions of the earth’s crust at that specific point under Sri Lanka were set up perfectly to generate not a tiny perfect thing, but a great big perfect thing.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Such channels could still have ads and provide a new revenue stream for Netflix, while a TCM channel could keep its sponsorships without ads to maintain the purity of the TCM brand.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
21 Jan. 2026
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Nearly three centuries later, the Shaker founder could become an unlikely icon for Gen Z, who are bringing celibacy back in staggeringly high numbers, according to a slew of recent studies.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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Their number grew while the utopian community lived in New Harmony thanks to a celibacy edict put in place by their founder George Rapp in 1807.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
30 Dec. 2025
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But Cygnet Infinity—which received gold at the Spirits Business’s Low & No Masters 2026 Awards—is less about abstinence than embracement.—
Nick Scott,
Robb Report,
19 Jan. 2026
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For decades, tobacco policy has been built around the idea that the only acceptable endpoint is abstinence.—
Kevin Bardosh,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Jan. 2026
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“Chastity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chastity. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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