Noah Webster
Chastity
CHASTITY, noun
1. Purity of the body; freedom from all unlawful commerce of sexes. Before marriage, purity from all commerce of sexes; after marriage, fidelity to the marriage bed.
2. Freedom from obscenity, as in language or conversation.
3. Freedom from bad mixture; purity in words and phrases.
4. Purity; unadulterated state; as the chastity of the gospel.