貞てい操そう堅けん固ご

na-adjective, noun

chaste; faithful

Describes unwavering chastity, typically of a wife toward her husband. Often used in formal or literary contexts.

• 彼かの女じょは貞てい操そう堅けん固ごな妻つまとして知しられている。

  She is known as a wife of steadfast chastity.

• 昔むかしの女じょ性せいには貞てい操そう堅けん固ごが求もとめられた。

  Women in the past were expected to be strictly chaste.