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of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. T. Carew.

Unchastity. [Obs.] Milton.

The quality or state of being unchaste; lewdness; incontinence.

Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.

To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of. J. Fletcher.

A stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. Rowley. Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. -- Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. Wh…

fe. -- Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

Chastity; purity.

To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity. But if they can not contain, let them marry. 1 Cor. vii. 9.

he unmarried and widows] have not continency, let them marry. 1 Cor. vii. 9 (Rev. Ver. ). Chastity is either abstinence or continence: abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence, that of married persons. Jer. Taylor.

Breach of chastity. [Obs.] Shak.

To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate. The husband murder'd and the wife defiled. Prior.

The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

Lewdness; unchastity. Shak.

To violate the chastity of; to debauch. Dryden.

den. I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. Milton. To force a spotless virgin's chastity. Shak.

Chastity; modesty. Chaucer. To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.

ue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity. If she have forgot Honor and virtue. Shak. Godlike erect, with native honor clad. Milton.

e); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine. He tried a third, a tough, well-chosen spear, The inviolable body stood sincere. Dryden.

s of the other, as the stung Are of the adder. Shak. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Bacon.