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chaste | churel |

As an adjective chaste

is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.

As a noun churel is

in hindu folklore, the ghost of a low-chaste woman who died during childbirth or menstruation.

chaste

English

Adjective

(er)
  • abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
  • virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
  • simple, austere, undecorative
    • a chaste style in composition or art
  • modest, decent, morally pure
    • a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes

    Usage notes

    * Married couples are often exhorted to have "chaste sex"--compare the Vatican encyclical Casti Connubii (Of Chaste Wedlock ).

    Derived terms

    * chastity

    See also

    * pure

    Anagrams

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    churel

    English

    Noun

    (s)
  • In Hindu folklore, the ghost of a low-chaste woman who died during childbirth or menstruation
  • * 1895 , , North Indian Notes and Queries , page 39:
    • As a churel she now prowls about the neighbourhood with her child in her arms.
  • * 1953 , , Volume 29, page 410:
    • He talked in whispers, and with the utmost respect, of the churel that might be listening overhead.