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practice + chastity
Many religious orders require their members to practice chastity.
许多宗教团体要求其成员践行贞洁。
贞操；纯洁
chastities — plural of chastity
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
贞操；纯洁
the practice of refraining from sexual relations, often for religious or moral reasons
Many religious orders require their members to practice chastity.
许多宗教团体要求其成员践行贞洁。
贞洁的品质:避免任何被认为不道德的性行为的状态；避免性罪错。
The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.
戒除性关系(如因宗教誓言)
abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)
有关性关系的道德
morality with respect to sexual relations
In many traditions, monks and nuns take a vow of chastity as part of their religious life.
在许多传统中，僧侣和修女立下贞洁誓言作为宗教生活的一部分。
She wrote a novel exploring the difference between chastity and true love.
她写了一本探讨贞洁与真爱之间区别的小说。
The museum displayed a medieval belt once believed to enforce chastity.
博物馆展出了一条中世纪腰带，曾被认为用来强制保持贞洁。
Many religious orders require their members to practice chastity.
许多宗教团体要求其成员践行贞洁。
He chose to live in chastity after his wife passed away.
妻子去世后，他选择过贞洁的生活。
The monks take a vow of chastity upon entering the monastery.
僧侣们进入修道院时发誓守贞。
Not this
She is a very chastity person.
Use this
She is a very chaste person.
错误在于将名词 'chastity' 误用作形容词来修饰名词 'person'。正确的做法是使用形容词 'chaste' 来描述人。
Not this
The chastity of the air is important.
Use this
The purity of the air is important.
错误在于将 'chastity'（特指性纯洁或道德上的纯洁）用于非道德的语境（如空气的洁净）。正确的词应使用 'purity' 表示物理或化学上的纯净。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
贞洁誓言；守贞誓愿
The monk took a vow of chastity when he entered the monastery.
这位僧侣进入修道院时立下了贞洁誓言。
贞操带
The museum displays a medieval chastity belt.
博物馆展出一条中世纪的贞操带。
践行贞洁；守贞
In many faiths, believers are expected to practice chastity.
在许多信仰中，信徒被期望践行贞洁。
终身守贞
She chose lifelong chastity for religious reasons.
她出于宗教原因选择了终身守贞。
失去贞操；失贞
Before marriage, she was determined not to lose her chastity.
婚前，她决心不失贞。
贞洁是最不自然的性变态。
This famous aphorism is attributed to English writer Aldous Huxley. It is often quoted to highlight the paradoxical idea that absolute sexual abstinence may itself seem unnatural.
这句名言出自英国作家奥尔德斯·赫胥黎。人们常引用它来强调一个悖论：彻底的性禁欲本身可能显得不自然。
贞洁是一种来自丰沛之爱的财富。
This line appears in Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, where the poet reinterprets chastity as a natural expression of love rather than a mere prohibition.
这句话出自莱纳·玛丽亚·里尔克的《给青年诗人的信》。里尔克将贞洁重新诠释为爱的自然表达，而非单纯的禁止。
Use chastities naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
记：音似‘查斯特提’，想象查斯特一身白衣，守护贞洁。
语域：formal 常见场景：religious or moral discourse、formal writing、historical texts chastity 一词语域偏正式，通常用于宗教、道德或严肃的书面讨论（如正式文章、历史或学术文本），日常口语中较少使用。这里选择正式语域比较稳妥。
All listed words share the spelling ending -ity, but none rhymes exactly with chastity (/ˈtʃæstəti/): charity and purity keep the first-syllable stress and final /əti/ but differ in the consonant before it; ability, activity, and maturity have the same final /əti/ but stress the second syllable; city is pronounced /ˈsɪti/ and loses the unstressed vowel. Do not judge the sound from the spelling.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.