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How to use chastity in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Chastity means the quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins. Example: “The monk took a vow of chastity.”

Examples of chastity by meaning

nounThe quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual...

  • The monk took a vow of chastity.
  • vow of chastity
  • virtue and chastity

More sentences with chastity

  • I'mma make a chastity belt out of a robotic shark with big pointy teefies.2022 October 1, @MLovesDemocracy, Twitter, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2023. From the entry bozack
  • The beautiful boy has flowing or richly textured hyacinthine hair, the only luxuriance in this chastity.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry hyacinthine
  • We regard her chastity as essential to her maternal rectitude.1995, Merete Leonhardt-Lupa, “A Mother's Sexuality”, in A Mother Is Born: Preparing for Motherhood During Pregnancy, Westport, Conn.…. From the entry madonna
  • I implore her intercession, through the merits of her chastity, and by the glory that she gave to thy power, in dying for thee.2015, Anonymous, Aeterna Press, The Life and Miracles: Saint Philomena, Virgin and Martyr, Aeterna Press. From the entry virgin
  • It embodied their spirit and carried it forward, uniting their delicate feeling for chastity and purity with the ideal of monogamic love.1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6). From the entry monogamic
  • Just as Halloween decorations at CVS have become the harbinger of fall, an uptick in conversations about male chastity can only mean October—or Locktober—is around the corner.2023 September 30, Emell Derra Adolphus, “Locktober: How Giving Up Control of Your Penis Can Set You Free”, in The Daily Beast, archived…. From the entry Locktober
  • It describes the Agapetae as virgins who consecrated themselves to God with a vow of chastity and associated with laymen who like themselves had taken a vow of chastity.2007, Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Who Is This King of Glory?:, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry agapetae
  • He can inspect the Historical Cabinet, which includes a segment of Napoleon’s intestine—now believed to be perfectly genuine—a chastity belt, the mummy of the first Mrs.1910 December 3, “Review of The Illustrated Guide to the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, England”, in The British Medical…. From the entry chastity belt
  • In holy orders no one is better loved than he who lives chastely, because chastity is the first principle for any cleric as well as the foundation of his life.2004, Theo Clemens, Wim Janse, The Pastor Bonus. From the entry chastely
  • With the priestesses of goddesses the considerations which tend to lay upon the wife-priestesses of a god the tabu of chastity have no application, and their hierodulic character is retained.1927, Robert Briffault, The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions. From the entry hierodulic

Meaning of chastity

  1. noun The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.

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Questions about chastity in a sentence

How do you use chastity in a sentence?
Chastity is used as a noun. For example: “The monk took a vow of chastity.”
What is a short sentence with chastity?
“virtue and chastity”
What does chastity mean?
Chastity means the quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.

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