their state of life. In some contexts, for example when making a vow of chastity, chastity means celibacy. The words chaste and chastity stem from the...

Vow of Chastity (Italian: Voto di castità) is a 1976 Italian erotic comedy. It was directed by Joe D'Amato, who also acted as cinematographer. The story...

profession of the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience or Benedictine equivalent. The vows are regarded as the individual's free response...

solemn vow is a simple vow. Even a vow accepted by a legitimate superior in the name of the Church (the definition of a "public vow") is a simple vow if the...

Manifesto" and the "Vows of Chastity" (Danish: kyskhedsløfter). These were rules to create films based on the traditional values of story, acting, and...

order to imitate the life of Jesus of Nazareth (see also Evangelical counsels). This vow of chastity, made by people – not all of whom are clergy – is different...

the self-imposed rules of the Dogme 95 manifesto, and the first non-European film to be made under the Dogme 95 "vow of chastity". Julien, a young man...

is typically accompanied by a religious vow to practice abstinence until marriage. Chastity rings are part of the abstinence-only sex education movement...

or vow of chastity, or the marriage to a woman who had an existing valid marriage or vow of chastity forms an irregularity even after the death of the...

the exception of the Vestal Virgins, who took a 30-year vow of chastity in order to devote themselves to the study and correct observance of state rituals...

Licinius Crassus, who allegedly attempted to frame her for breaking her vow of chastity in order to acquire her property. Licinia belonged to a prominent family...

Religious vows in the form of the three evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience were first made in the twelfth century by Francis of Assisi...

the state of voluntarily being unmarried and/or sexually abstinent Albanian sworn virgins, women in parts of Albania who take a vow of chastity and present...

meaning 'beloved') were virgins who consecrated themselves to God with a vow of chastity and associated with laymen. The practice was also known as Syneisaktism...

or military defeats. For minor failures of duty, Vestals could be whipped. For breaking their vow of chastity, a Vestal could be condemned to a living...

when they were found guilty of breaking their chastity vows. Immurement has also been well established as a punishment of robbers in Persia, even into...

von Trier) in which the directors, actors, and actresses commit a "vow of chastity" to minimize their reliance on special effects that may create unauthentic...

Duke of Poland. Despite the marriage, the devout couple took up a vow of chastity. The marriage was largely arranged by, and the vow of chastity patterned...

opposite side of the Hellespont. Leander falls in love with her, and she reciprocates, although cautiously, as she has made a vow of chastity to Venus. Leander...

one of the DOGME 95 brethren and co-signatory of the Vow of Chastity I feel moved to confess to the following transgressions of the aforesaid Vow during...

burrnesha) are people who are assigned female at birth and who take a vow of chastity and live as men in patriarchal northern Albanian society, Kosovo and...

member of a religious order was expelled, the vow of chastity remained unchanged and so rendered invalid any attempt at marriage, the vow of obedience...

possessions, took a personal vow of chastity and prayed the breviary each day. He founded a church and abbey on his estate of Aurillac, where he was buried...

Mohandas in South Africa.[citation needed] In 1906, Mohandas took a vow of chastity, or brahamacharya. Some reports indicated that Kasturba felt that this...

husband's permission, she took a vow of chastity in the presence of Richard FitzJames, Bishop of London. Taking a vow of chastity while being married was unusual...

poverty, chastity and obedience or their equivalents stability, conversion of manners, and obedience. An additional vow usually is an expression of the order...

of the congregation must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of...

Thessalonica. She dedicated herself to vows of chastity and poverty, praying and helping the poor. The legend of her martyrdom states that, in 304, a Roman...

enjoyed greater freedom than nuns in a convent. While beguines took a vow of chastity, and while they considered themselves obliged to attend Holy Mass every...

were Roman vestal Virgins, who were prosecuted for having broken the vow of chastity in two famous trials between 115 and 113 BC. The first trial was conducted...