chasteness
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English chastnesse; equivalent to chaste + -ness.
Noun edit
chasteness (usually uncountable, plural chastenesses)
- The state of being chaste; chastity
- 1805, Emily Clark, The banks of the Douro:
- The chasteness of her dress made her appear the allusive semblance of Purity itself
- 2005, Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Ancient West & East:
- Livia's public image and her statues portrayed her as one imbued with the qualities of moral chasteness and matronly respectability