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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



... an element new to Rossetti's poetry, or seen here for the first time conspicuously. Insight and imagination of a high order, together with a poetic instinct whose promptings were sure, had already found expression in more than one creation moulded into an innate chasteness of perfected parts and wedded to nature with an unerring fidelity. But the range of nature was circumscribed, save only in the one exception of a work throbbing with the sufferings and sorrows of a shadowed side of modern life. To this lyric, however, there came as basis ...
— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine


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


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