单词 | chastity |
释义 | chastityn. The quality or state of being chaste. 1. a. Purity from unlawful sexual intercourse; continence. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [noun] kasté13.. chastityc1305 chasteheada1325 temperance1340 continencec1380 chastenessc1386 virginitya1400 violet1412 castimony1490 continency1526 chastice1567 nunnery1654 brahmacharya1787 moral restraint1803 c1305 St. Edmund 83 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 73 He ne miȝte neuere fynde non of so gret chastete. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 234 Chastete, which selde where Cometh now a daies into place. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 70 Chastyte, castitas, pudicacia. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. ii. 30 So she concluded that she wold kepe her chastete. 1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) vi. vii. f. 163v The first degree of chastitie, is pure virginitie: ye second faithful matrimony. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C4v [Una]..the flowre of faith and chastity. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iv. 16 Hee hath bought a paire of cast lips of Diana..the very yce of chastity is in them. View more context for this quotation 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 75 And would instantly put her to death if he but suspected her chastity. 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iv. ii. 496 The law of chastity cannot be violated without producing evil. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 140 Chastity was the supreme virtue in the eyes of the church. ΚΠ 1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catech. (1853) 124 Whose chastity standeth in this, to be dedicated to God alone. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiii. 27) Wee define the spirituall chastitie of our minde to be a stedfast abyding faith, in calling upon God, in soundnesse of hart, and in obedience to ye word. 1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) i. 20 He felt the chastity of silent woe. 2. Abstinence from all sexual intercourse; virginity, celibacy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [noun] > by choice > state or condition of chastity?c1225 celibate1614 celibacy1663 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 5 Nan ancre ne schal..makien professiun..buten þreo þinges. þet beoð obedience. chastete. & studestaðeluestninge. 138. J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 40 Frere menours..lyuynge in obedience, wiþ-outen propre, & in chastitie. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 311 Oonli vndir counseil he [sc. Christ] profrid chastite to alle men that myȝten it take. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 85 The law wych byndyth prestys to chastyte. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iii. 21 Vpon whose Graue thou vow'dst pure chastitie . View more context for this quotation 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 26 A nun, whom love seduced from her vow of chastity. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > [noun] cleannessc890 purity?c1225 chastity1388 cleanliness1430 pureness1607 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Macc. xiv. 36 Thei..defouliden alle thingis that weren in cumpas of hooli thingis, and ȝauen greet wounde to chastite. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 39 To enter into this rowme unlesse it be of necessitie & with devout chastitie, men make it scrupulous & are affraide. 4. Exclusion of meretricious ornament; purity of style, modesty, chasteness. ΘΚΠ 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 > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally decoruma1568 humoura1568 variety1597 strength1608 uniformity1625 barbarity1644 freedom1645 boldness1677 correctness1684 clinquant1711 unity1712 contrast1713 meretriciousness1727 airiness1734 pathos1739 chastity1760 vigour1774 prettyism1789 mannerism1803 serio-comic1805 actuality1812 largeness1824 local colour1829 subjectivitya1834 idealism1841 pastoralism1842 inartisticalitya1849 academicism1852 realism1856 colour contrast1858 crampedness1858 niggling1858 audacity1859 superreality1859 literalism1860 pseudo-classicism1861 sensationalism1862 sensationism1862 chocolate box1865 pseudo-classicality1867 academism1871 actualism1872 academicalism1874 ethos1875 terribilità1877 local colouring1881 neoclassicism1893 mass effect1902 attack1905 verismo1908 kitsch1921 abstraction1923 self-consciousness1932 surreality1936 tension1941 build-up1942 sprezzatura1957 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [noun] > purity chastity1760 sanctimony1830 sanctitude1855 chasteness1889 1760 L. Sterne Serm. Yorick III. 90 In our own church..there is the greatest chastity in the external parts of religion. a1763 W. Shenstone Odes (1765) 218 The engaging chastity of dress. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 223 Chastity and elegance of style. 5. Exclusion of excess or extravagance; moderation, restraint. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [noun] > happy medium merry meana1475 golden mediocrity?1510 middle mean1577 happy medium1629 chastity1712 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 480. ⁋5 Indulge me, my Noble Master, in this Chastity of Renown. Compounds C1. General attributive. chastity clause n. ΚΠ 1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Mar. 7/2 The question..was whether it was a condition of the allowance of £100 that a dum casta or chastity clause should be inserted. C2. chastity belt n. a belt designed to prevent a woman from having sexual intercourse; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [noun] > device for preserving virginity chastity belt1910 belt1973 1910 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 1778/1 He can inspect the Historical Cabinet, which includes..a chastity belt, the mummy of the first Mrs. Van Butchell, and pieces of the skin of England's foes once nailed to the doors of parish churches. 1922 Index-Catal. Libr. Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army 3rd ser. III. 1003/2 ‘Chastity girdle’ improvised by suspicious husband.] 1931 E. J. Dingwall Girdle of Chastity ii. 10 The virgin girdles of antiquity have nothing in common with the chastity belts. 1931 E. J. Dingwall Girdle of Chastity vi. 164 The imposition of chastity belts upon women in order to allay masculine jealousy. 1938 L. MacNeice I crossed Minch ii. xvi. 230 As medieval and even more effective than a chastity belt. 1960 Guardian 17 Dec. 4/6 A traffic plan which enclosed Oxford in, so to speak, a chastity belt. 1969 Sun 19 June 5/6 A Dorset firm who make chastity belts have been told that the belts..must carry purchase tax of 13¾ per cent. They are appealing..that the belts should pay no tax ‘like other safety equipment’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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