different between girlish vs chaste

English

Etymology

girl +? -ish

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???l??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????l??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l??

Adjective

girlish (comparative more girlish, superlative most girlish)

1. Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 2, [1]

     She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.

   • 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act I, [2]

     Three little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school!

   • 1898, William Watson, "Song" in The Hope of the World and Other Poems, London: John Lane, p. 41, [3]

     April, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!

2. (archaic) Of or relating to girlhood.
   • 1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, [4]

     This village was the birth-place of Thomasine Bonauenture, I know not, whether by descent, or euent, so called: for whiles in her girlish age she kept sheepe on the foreremembered moore, it chanced that a London merchant passing by, saw her […] .

Derived terms

• girlishly
• girlishness
• ungirlish

Translations

See also

• schoolgirlish

See also

• boyish
• womanish

English

Etymology

From Middle English chaste, from Old French chaste (“morally pure”), from Latin castus (“pure”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ch?st, IPA^(key): /t?e?st/
• Homophone: chased
• Rhymes: -e?st

Adjective

chaste (comparative chaster, superlative chastest)

1. Abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse.
2. Virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience.
3. Austere, simple, undecorative.

4. Decent, modest, morally pure.

Usage notes

Married couples are often exhorted to have “chaste sex” – compare the Vatican encyclical Casti Connubii (Of Chaste Wedlock).

Hyponyms

• celibate
• incel

Derived terms

• chastity

Translations

See also

• pure

Anagrams

• 'stache, 'taches, Scheat, achest, chates, cheats, he-cats, sachet, scathe, she-cat, stache, taches, thecas

French

Etymology

From Old French chaste, caste, a semi-learned term derived from Latin castus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ast/

Adjective

chaste (plural chastes)

1. chaste; celibate

Related terms

• chasteté

Further reading

• “chaste” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• caste

Etymology

Semi-learned term derived from Latin castus.

Adjective

chaste m (oblique and nominative feminine singular chaste)

1. chaste; celibate

Related terms

• chasteté