N. youth, juvenility, juvenescence, juniority, infancy, babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood, incunabula, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation

Adj. young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged

Phr. "youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm", "youth . . . the glad season of life"

N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness, # bachelorhood, bachelorship, misogamy, misogyny, virginity, pucelage, maidenhood, maidenhead, unmarried man, bachelor, coelebs, agamist, old bachelor, misogamist, misogynist, monogamist, monk, unmarried woman, spinster, maid, maiden, virgin, feme sole, old maid, bachelor girl, girl-bachelor, nun

V. live single, live alone

Adj. unmarried, unwed, unwedded, wifeless, spouseless, single

N. purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, # chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, joseph, hippolytus, lucretia, diana, prude

Adj. pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry

Phr. "as chaste as unsunn'd snow", "a soul as white as heaven", "'tis chastity, my brother, chastity", "to the pure all things are pure"