chastity

名词 chastity:

1. abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)
   同义词：celibacy, sexual abstention
2. morality with respect to sexual relations
   同义词：virtue, sexual morality

1. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do, if she find him jealous.
   如果一个女人为丈夫的聪明优秀而自豪，那么这就是使她忠贞不渝的最好保证。但如果一个女人发现她的丈夫是妒忌多疑的，那么她将绝不会认为他是聪明的。
2. An unmarried woman who has taken religious vows of chastity.
   贞女发过宗教誓言保持贞洁的未婚女子
3. It seems the vows of chastity belonging to a nun.
   这似乎是一个修女的贞操誓言。
4. Chastity is important to a woman.
   贞节对一个女人来说是重要的。

chas.ti.ty

n.（名词）
The condition or quality of being pure or chaste.
纯洁：纯洁或贞洁的状况或者品质

Virginity.
童贞
Virtuous character.
善良的品性
Celibacy.
独身

来源：
Middle English chastite
中古英语 chastite
from Old French chastete
源自 古法语 chastete
from Latin castit3s
源自 拉丁语 castit3s
from castus [pure] * see chaste
源自 castus [纯] *参见 chaste