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nepializtli.

Headword: 
nepializtli.
Principal English Translation: 

continence or chastity (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

nepializtli. continencia o castidad.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 69r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

vncan mjtoa in tlatolli: in quenjn iehoatl tetatzin tlatoanj, anoҫo pilli qujnonotzaia in jpiltzin, ynjc qujcujtlaviltiaia in nepializtli = Here is told the discourse, the manner in which the father, ruler or nobleman, exhorted his son in order to provoke him to chastity (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 113.