chastenessn.
/ˈtʃeɪstnɪs/ The quality or state of being chaste.
1. Chastity, sexual purity. archaic.
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society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [noun]
kasté13..
chastityc1305
chasteheada1325
temperance1340
continencec1380
chastenessc1386
virginitya1400
violet1412
castimony1490
continency1526
chastice1567
nunnery1654
brahmacharya1787
moral restraint1803
c1386 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 88 Pure chaastnesse of virginitee.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ix. sig. Nn2v In her let beautie both, and chastnesse fully raigne.
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 415 So great a Patron of modesty and chastness, that he prohibited the Marriages of Cousin-germans.
1719 Free-thinker No. 108. 2 It tends..to corrupt the Sobriety and Chasteness of the Peoples Morals.
2. Purity of style, etc.; see chaste adj. 7, 8.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > simplicity > [noun]
plainness1549
austerity1581
simplicity1593
severity1713
simplex munditiis1740
chastity1760
chasteness1889
penny-plainness1920
sabi1932
wabi1934
understatement1967
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [noun] > purity
chastity1760
sanctimony1830
sanctitude1855
chasteness1889
1889 N.E.D. at Chasteness Mod. Nothing can surpass the chasteness of the ornamentation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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