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chastness

chastness is the obsolete form of chasteness.

Meaning of chasteness

Noun

chasteness (usually uncountable, plural chastenesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being chaste; chastity
    • The chasteness of her dress made her appear the allusive semblance of Purity itself1805, Emily Clark, The banks of the Douro

Origin of chastness

From chast + -ness.

Questions about chastness

What is chastness the obsolete form of?
Chastness is the obsolete form of chasteness.

Words near chastness in the dictionary

  1. chastizements
  2. chastizes
  3. chastizing
  4. Chastleton
  5. chastly
  6. chastness
  7. chasts
  8. chastushka
  9. chastushkas
  10. chastushki
  11. chastushky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chastness (page history and authors); chasteness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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