chastity
/ˈt͡ʃæstɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A female given name from English from the virtue chastity.
Example Sentences
- "The monk took a vow of chastity."
- "vow of chastity"
- "virtue and chastity"
- "In Catholic doctrine, the virtue of chastity is taken to be the principal foil to everyone's favourite deadly sin, lust."
- "Since she was saddled with that awful name, Chastity Bono has given her parents much grief over it. "It helps to get into a show or something, but most of the time it's a pain," she told McCall's. The girl blames mama Cher who was inspired by a movie."
Etymology
From Middle English chastite, from Old French chasteté, a semi-learned adaptation of Latin castitas, equivalent to chaste + -ity.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃæstɪti/
- British English: /ˈt͡ʃastɪti/