Chastity, also known as purity, is a virtue related to temperance. Someone who is chaste refrains either from sexual activity that is considered immoral or from any sexual activity, according to their state of life. In some contexts, for example when making a vow of chastity, chastity means celibacy.
The words chaste and chastity stem from the Latin adjective ("cut off", "separated", "pure"). The words entered the English language around the middle of the 13th century. Chaste meant "virtuous",... meer