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Chasteness   Listen
noun
Chasteness  n.  
1.
Chastity; purity.
2.
(Literature & Art) Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.





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"Chasteness" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Mr. Powers's ideal works. In the qualities of chasteness of conception, delicacy of treatment, temperate grace, and that rarer, finer quality of dignified repose, they have not been surpassed since the time of Greek Art. When the subject chosen has not been foreign to the artist's ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 27, January, 1860 • Various


Words linked to "Chasteness" :   simpleness, plainness, chaste, simplicity, restraint


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