1. The condition or quality of being chaste, pure or virginal.
2. Abstention from sexual activity, usually meaning a state of celibacy or virginity.
Quotes:
(1) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963): ' Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.'
(2) Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915): ' Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
(3) Anatole France (1844-1924): ' Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.'
(4) From Encyclopedia of Graffiti Robert Reisner & Lorraine Wechsler (1974): -- ' Chaste makes waste.' -- ' Chastity is its own punishment.' -- ' Virtue can hurt you.'
(5) Humorously defined by Louis J. Safian in An Irreverent Dictionary of Love and Marriage (1966) as: ' The purity of a woman who has never been tempted.'
chastity rate this definition:
Staying away from sexual life; avoiding from sexual intercourse with moral senses; the unmarried life