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Immaculate vs Chaste - What's the difference?

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Immaculate is a related term of chaste.


As adjectives the difference between immaculate and chaste

is that immaculate is having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure while chaste is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.

immaculate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
    • Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate . —
    Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. — Shakespeare, Richard II , V-iii.

    Synonyms

    * spotless * undefiled * unsullied

    Derived terms

    * Immaculate Conception * immaculately * immaculateness

    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

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