Synonyms

1. simpleness
2. restraint
3. chasteness

Sentence Examples

1. Based on his office and bedroom area, she figured he was a man who enjoyed simplicity and beauty.
2. And yet, on the faith of an honest man, I never spoke ill of any enchanter, and I am not so well off that I am to be envied to be sure, I am rather sly, and I have a certain spice of the rogue in me but all is covered by the great cloak of my simplicity, always natural and never acted and if I had no other merit save that I believe, as I always do, firmly and truly in God, and all the holy Roman Catholic Church holds and believes, and that I am a mortal enemy of the Jews, the historians ought to have mercy on me and treat me well in their writings.
3. For all that his simplicity never reached so high a pitch that he could persuade himself it was not the plain and simple truth, without any deception whatever about it, that he had been blanketed by beings of flesh and blood, and not by visionary and imaginary phantoms, as his master believed and protested.
4. Which of the bystanders could have helped laughing to see the madness of the master and the simplicity of the servant?
5. This same mode of proceeding I shall have to adopt with thee, for the desire which has sprung up in thee is so absurd and remote from everything that has a semblance of reason, that I feel it would be a waste of time to employ it in reasoning with thy simplicity, for at present I will call it by no other name and I am even tempted to leave thee in thy folly as a punishment for thy pernicious desire but the friendship I bear thee, which will not allow me to desert thee in such manifest danger of destruction, keeps me from dealing so harshly by thee.
6. Thou didst address thyself to my simplicity, thou didst lay siege to my virtue, thou wert not ignorant of my station, well dost thou know how I yielded wholly to thy will there is no ground or reason for thee to plead deception, and if it be so, as it is, and if thou art a Christian as thou art a gentleman, why dost thou by such subterfuges put off making me as happy at last as thou didst at first?
7. I may not have got better at learning complex things, but in practicing simple acts of forgiveness, kindness, and compassion, I feel the simplicity of our call to love with all our passion filling me completely.
8. No longer now doth proud knight-errantry Regard with scorn the sickle and the spade Of towering arrogance less count is made Than of plain esquire-like simplicity.
9. Suddenly starting from a proposition, exactly and sharply defined, in terms of utmost simplicity and clearness, he rejected the forms of customary logic, and by a crystalline process of accretion, built up his ocular demonstrations in forms of gloomiest and ghastliest grandeur, or in those of the most airy and delicious beauty, so minutely and distinctly, yet so rapidly, that the attention which was yielded to him was chained till it stood among his wonderful creations, till he himself dissolved the spell, and brought his hearers back to common and base existence, by vulgar fancies or exhibitions of the ignoblest passion.
10. The barber told him he could manage it properly without any instruction, and as he did not care to dress himself up until they were near where Don Quixote was, he folded up the garments, and the curate adjusted his beard, and they set out under the guidance of Sancho Panza, who went along telling them of the encounter with the madman they met in the Sierra, saying nothing, however, about the finding of the valise and its contents for with all his simplicity the lad was a trifle covetous.