CHASTITY in a Sentence

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For CHASTITY, below is one of 12 sentences:
The respectability of the Gopher Prairies, said Carol, is reinforced by vows of poverty and chastity in the matter of knowledge.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHASTITY
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chastity
 n.  state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse
Classic Sentence:
1  So I love chastity now, because it is the peace that comes of fucking.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
2  I love this chastity, which is the pause of peace of our fucking, between us now like a snowdrop of forked white fire.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
3  I love the chastity now that it flows between us.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
4  The respectability of the Gopher Prairies, said Carol, is reinforced by vows of poverty and chastity in the matter of knowledge.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  Their freedom of expression was at first incomprehensible to her, though she had no difficulty in reconciling it with a lofty chastity which in the Creole woman seems to be inborn and unmistakable.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  And, withal, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never a diversion.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
7  The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon the castus.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
8  But constancy, chastity, good sense, and good nature, were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
9  There is little or no prostitution among these Negroes, and over three-fourths of the families, as found by house-to-house investigation, deserve to be classed as decent people with considerable regard for female chastity.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence:
1  It is generally accepted among the elderly people the chastity before marriage is still demanded.
2  Just reflect for a moment on the purpose of the human chastity belt.
3  The culture that encourages chastity is seriously misrepresented in the mainstream media.