chas·ti·ty /ˈʧæstəti/
 純潔,貞操


 Chas·ti·ty n.
 1. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
    She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity.   --T. Carew.
 2. Moral purity.
 So dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
 That, when a soul is found sicerely so
 A thousand liveried angels lackey her.   --Milton.
 3. The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.]
 4. Literature & Art Chasteness.

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 chastity
      n 1: abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious
           vows) [syn: celibacy, sexual abstention]
      2: morality with respect to sexual relations [syn: virtue, {sexual
         morality]