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chastity

/chas-ti-tee/US // ˈtʃæs tɪ ti //UK // (ˈtʃæstɪtɪ) //

贞操,贞洁,贞节,贞洁性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or quality of being chaste.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • As Saint Augustine said, “God, give me chastity, but not yet.”

  • Most of the main characters practice chastity or nobly resist temptation, in between flowery love declarations and wholesome flirting.

  • Okay, but still, “Homosexual persons are called to chastity.”

  • If women attend games he said, there could be no guarantees that hejab or chastity would be properly observed or respected.

  • In other words, pledging chastity in the past is strongly associated with a virgin birth.

  • They also claim that it inspired him to “embrac[e] Eastern religions that endorsed chastity.”

  • From the modern chastity belt to a bag that disguises as a manhole, Soraya Roberts on the growing trend of protective fashion.

  • Thus seen, socialism appeared as the very antithesis of law and order, of love and chastity, and of religion itself.

  • One day, then, she realized that she was to have a child, and all that remained to her of chastity leaped for joy.

  • They who, having wives, wish to make a vow of chastity, shall wait four months before they decide.

  • Or she holds a lily in her right hand, to indicate her virginity and chastity, and the sweet odor of her virtues.

  • St. Augustine says: "The fiercest of all combats is the one for the preservation of chastity, and we must engage in it every day."