Synonyms:
chastity, celibacy, sexual_abstention
Meaning: abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)
Usage examples
XII OF CHASTITY AND MODESTY
He pretended to invisibility and absolute chastity.
A prison is a convent without God-- Poverty, Chastity, Obedience Its precepts are:
For chastity had never afflicted him; it had ever been to him a source of strength and courage.
A temptation of the flesh had come upon him; he had yielded to it instead of opposing it with the contrary habit of chastity.
The host, on his side, and his servants, both male and female, must neither wash clothes nor bathe so long as the feast lasts, and they have all during its continuance to observe strict chastity.
Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity.
Although polygamy was tolerated in our tribe, Thomas considered it a violation of good and wholesome rules in society, and tending directly to destroy that friendly social intercourse and love, that ought to be the happy result of matrimony and chastity.