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chastity |
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chastity noun purity, virtue, innocence, modesty, virginity, celibacy, continence, maidenhood << OPPOSITE promiscuity Translations |
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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many almost a vice. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do, if she find him jealous. And whoever reads the life of Cyrus, written by Xenophon, will recognize afterwards in the life of Scipio how that imitation was his glory, and how in chastity, affability, humanity, and liberality Scipio conformed to those things which have been written of Cyrus by Xenophon. |
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