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Chastité, Chaistité, n. Also: chastyte, -itee, -itie, -etie; chaistitie, -itye, -ytie, -etie, -atie; chestitie. [ME. chastité, -yté, chasteté (a 1225), OF. chasteté, L. castitas.] Chastity.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xxiv. 125 ( … gere hyr consent to chastyte). c1420 Wynt. vii. 833 (ensawmpill off chastyte). 1456 Hay II. 32/14 (thare is thre gree of chastitee). c1450-2 Howlat 725 (chalmer of chastite). c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 208 (than chastite adew). c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2961 (had scho keipit hir chastitie). 1562-3 Winȝet II. 47/23 (a man of grete chastitie). a1570-86 Maitl. F. xv. 51 (God grant our ladeis chastitie). a1578 Pitsc. II. 72/7 (als mony as haue nocht the gift of chastitie). a1585 Maitl. Q. lxvi. 48 (that bed of chastetie). 1596 Dalr. I. 290/11 (woemen quha had vowet chastitie).(b) 1531 Bell. Boece I. 84 (in redemption of thair honour and chaistite). c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4587 (quhat chaistytie thay keip in Rome). c1568 Lauder Minor P. v. 32 (that holy gyft of chaistetie). a1570-86 Maitl. F. xxix. 58 (the vertew, honest chaistitie). 1622-6 Bisset II. 108/19 (chaistatie, povertie, and obedyence).(c) a1500 Henr. III. 102/10 (hir sark … of chestitie so quhyt). 1622-6 Bisset II. 390/28 (gevin to chevelrie and chestitie).