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Chaste Means Word Chastity Related Latin Source Caste

Front chaste
Pron [tʃeɪst]
Back 【CHASTE】
Her parents teach her to be chaste and decent in her behavior.
她的父母教导她,要她行为贞洁而端庄。
【重点词汇】
chaste adj. 贞洁的 n. chastity
Vocab
chasteabstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse

If you belong to a chastity club, you might have to take a pledge to be chaste until marriage. Chaste can be defined as "pure and virtuous," but basically it means "not having sex."

This word is related to the Latin source of the verb castrate "to remove a man's testicles," so it's definitely related to sex. And chaste is from the same Latin source as the noun caste "a Hindu social class separated from other classes." So the word chaste means no sex, and the word caste means pure and virtuous.

All forms of 'chaste' will appear on average once every 661 pages.
chaste
chastely
chasteness
chastity
unchaste

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