Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chastity

Chastity , noun

[French chasteté, from Latin castitas, from castus. See Chaste.]

1.
The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
She... hath preserved her spotless chastity. — T. Carew
2.
Moral purity.
So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. — Milton
3.
The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
4.
(Literature & Art) Chasteness.