| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The condition of being chaste: chastity, decency, innocence, purity, virginity, virtue, virtuousness. See GOOD, RESTRAINT, SEX. 2. Lack of ostentation or pretension: plainness, simpleness, simplicity, unassumingness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness. See PLAIN. 3. Lack of vanity or self-importance: humbleness, humility, lowliness, meekness. See ATTITUDE, BIG, SELF-LOVE. 4. Reserve in speech, behavior, or dress: demureness, diffidence, reticence, self-effacement. See RESTRAINT.
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