chastity
Example Sentences
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A monk named Paschalis devotes his life to a biography of the noncanonical saint Wilgefortis, a venerated Christian noblewoman who grew a beard to vouchsafe her chastity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Born Henri Grouès in 1912 in Lyon, Abbé Pierre was ordained in 1938, taking a vow of chastity.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
Franklin maintained his own list of virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 8, 2023
By 1982, Ms. Kempton had taken a vow of chastity and poverty to live as a monk in Baba’s ashrams, first in India and then in a former borscht belt hotel in the Catskills.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Vocabulary lists containing chastity
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Novel Study: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Acts 1–2
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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