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Chasteness   Listen
noun
Chasteness  n.  
1.
Chastity; purity.
2.
(Literature & Art) Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.





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"Chasteness" Quotes from Famous Books



... and natures; and if as yet, in justness to the loyal male friend, she forbore to name him conspirator, she read both him and Emma, whose inner bosom was revealed to her, without an effort to see. But her characteristic chasteness of mind, not coldness of the 'blood,—which had supported an arduous conflict, past all existing rights closely to depict, and which barbed her to pierce to the wishes threatening her freedom, deceived her now to think her flaming blushes came of her relentless ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


Words linked to "Chasteness" :   plainness, chaste, restraint, simpleness, simplicity


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