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Chastity
Ethic concept of temperance related to sexuality / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Chastity (disambiguation).
Chastity, also known as purity, is a virtue related to temperance.[1] Someone who is chaste refrains either from sexual activity that is considered immoral or from any sexual activity,[2] according to their state of life. In some contexts, for example when making a vow of chastity, chastity means celibacy.
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