| 单词 | moral restraint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoral restraint c. Virtuous with regard to sexual conduct; showing sexual morality. Frequently in moral restraint. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [noun] kasté13.. chastityc1305 chasteheada1325 temperance1340 continencec1380 chastenessc1386 virginitya1400 violet1412 castimony1490 continency1526 chastice1567 nunnery1654 brahmacharya1787 moral restraint1803 society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [adjective] > chaste sedefulc1000 chaste?c1225 purec1380 continenta1398 castc1430 chastful1497 unwanton1606 moral1803 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iv. v. 523 The increase of vice which might contingently follow an attempt to inculcate the duty of moral restraint. 1806 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (ed. 3) I. i. i. 19 By moral restraint I..mean a restraint from marriage, from prudential motives, with a conduct strictly moral. 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 11 Spay those sows, That load the earth with pigs..Moral restraint I see has no effect. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xvi. 283 Sir Gavial..is a thoroughly moral man... Very different from Mr. Barabbas, whose life..is most objectionable, with actresses and that sort of thing. 1951 V. Nabokov Let. 12 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 128 I am engaged in the composition of a novel, which deals with the problems of a very moral middle-aged gentleman who falls very immorally in love with his stepdaughter, a girl of thirteen. 1991 S. Walker Rom. Art 33 The stola, a traditional female garment deliberately revived by Augustus as an expression of his policy of moral restraint upon members of the aristocracy. < as lemmas |
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