chaste
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See also: chastè
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English chaste, from Old French chaste (“morally pure”), from Latin castus (“pure”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: chāst, IPA(key): /t͡ʃeɪst/
- (rarely) IPA(key): /t͡ʃæst/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: chased
- Rhymes: -eɪst
- Rhymes: -æst
Adjective[edit]
chaste (comparative chaster, superlative chastest)
- Abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse.
- Virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Austere, simple, undecorative.
- a chaste style in composition or art
- Decent, modest, morally pure.
- a chaste mind; chaste eyes
Usage notes[edit]
Married couples are often exhorted to have “chaste sex” – compare the Vatican encyclical Casti Connubii (Of Chaste Wedlock).
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
abstaining from sexual intercourse
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innocent — see innocent
celibate — see celibate
austere — see austere
modest — see modest
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See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
- 'stache, 'taches, Scheat, achest, chates, cheats, he-cats, sachet, scathe, she-cat, stache, taches, thecas
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French chaste, caste, a semi-learned term derived from Latin castus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
chaste (plural chastes)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “chaste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Semi-learned term derived from Latin castus.
Adjective[edit]
chaste m (oblique and nominative feminine singular chaste)
Related terms[edit]
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