Chastity - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Chastity, an imputation on the chastity of a woman is now actionable without special damage. See SLANDER....
Modesty
Modesty, as 'womanly propriety of behaviour; scrupulous chastity of thought, speech and conduct; reserve or sense of shame proceeding from instinctive aversion to impure or coarse suggestions, Oxford English Dictionary (1993 Edn.); Raju Pandurang Mahale v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 4 SCC 371.Modesty, as freedom from coarseness, indelicacy or indecency; a regard for propriety in dress, speech or conduct, (Webster's Third New International Dictionary); Raju Pandurang Mahale v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 4 SCC 371.Modesty, can be described as the quality of being modest; and in relation to a woman , 'womanly propriety to behaviour; scrupulous chastity of thought, speech and conduct.' It is the reserve or sense of shame proceeding from instinctive aversion to impure or coarse suggestions, Aman Kumar v. State of Haryana, (2004) 4 SCC 379 (389). (Indian Penal Code, s. 354)--the essential ingredients of the offence unders. 354, IPC are as under:(i) that the person assaulted must be a wom...
Bewhore
To corrupt with regard to chastity to make a whore of...
Chasteness
Chastity purity...
Chastity
The state of being chaste purity of body freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse...
Diana
The daughter of Jupiter and Latona a virgin goddess who presided over hunting chastity and marriage identified with the Greek goddess Artemis...
Monk
A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world and devotes himself to religion one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery and bound by vows to a life of chastity obedience and poverty...
Obscenity
That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chastity or purity of mind obscene or impure lanquage or acts moral impurity lewdness obsceneness as the obscenity of a speech or a picture...
Pudicity
Modesty chastity...
Regular
A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty chastity and obedience and who has been solemnly recognized by the church...
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