Перевод слова

Перевод: chastity

[существительное]
целомудрие; девственность ; чистота ; строгость ; воздержанность

Тезаурус:

1. The narrator may not wholly be in jest when he refers to sexual intercourse with a certain girl, 17 or thereabouts, as "the ultimate indecorum", and rereaders of the novel are likely to be mindful of the survival here of an old England lived in by people like the middle-aged T. S. Eliot, exponents of a disgusted chastity.
2. The idea seems to be that if priests are given a "properly informed sexual education" this will prevent their "love of chastity" being displaced by the temptations of the flesh, but I see no reason why it should have this effect.
3. Peter Brown in his most recent and profoundly important book Body and Society demonstrates movingly how sexuality had so different a social meaning from what it now carries that the sexual abstinences, the noisy and sometimes virulent demands for chastity and virginity, within the early Church, far from being a symptom of self-hatred and dualism, were a radical political claim to the coming of the Kingdom: a claim which women, sometimes even more than men, could make.
4. The illustrations are replete with husbands who forced wives to wear chastity belts or even sewed up their labia.
5. The clergy have to be humble and "men of chastity" who refuse to submit "to the tyranny of this contemporary world, which puts all its faith in money and material security".
6. There we elders heard what we had despaired of hearing - a lecture on Comus which placed its importance where the poet placed it - and watched "the yonge fresshe folkes he or she" who filled the benches listening first with incredulity, then with toleration, and finally with delight, to something so strange and new in their experience as the praise of chastity.
7. Her options are not precisely heterosexuality and lesbianism, but rather seduction and chastity.
8. Their Bunny tails, as Norman Mailer put it, were "puffs of chastity which bobbled as they walked."
9. Comus is a masque in which a young lady's chastity is tried and not vanquished.
10. The document says priests should be given "a properly-informed sexual education" to prevent the "love of chastity" being displaced by the temptations of the flesh.
11. From the church came a dual impulse strengthening this morality: the prevailing teaching on sexual abstention outside of marriage under pain of mortal sin, and the rigorous life of a clergy pledged to chastity and preaching the need for an unmarried laity to practise the same degree and kind of circumspection in sexual matters which the clergy had been taught to impose upon themselves.
12. Long periods of chastity are perfectly OK, particularly when you are working hard.
13. A fairly conventional view - but here it is transformed by an argument that makes Caliban not merely the boar, minister of the lustful Venus - in contrast to Prospero, who, like Adonis, is tediously keen on chastity - but the hero of the piece, and indeed of the collected works.