chaste
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Jesus is widely thought to have never married and to have lived a chaste life.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
She says the idea of the Sisterhood choosing to be chaste and not have men around is something considered “intensely mysterious and threatening.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
K-dramas are famously chaste, which is part of their global appeal.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023
Still, these were details ABC might have accounted for before constructing the sensitive, chaste gentleman fantasy that made everyone weak in the knees.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2023
So instead, she just nodded and gave her great-aunt a chaste kiss on the cheek.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
"Unmatcht for beauty, chaster than the ayre," wrote one poet.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
The elevation into superior heat with women is an elevation into chaster and purer conjugial love, and continually towards the conjugial principle, which from creation lies concealed in their inmost principles, 188.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
His taste was much simpler, chaster, and disinclined to the florid and ornamental, than that of Cicero.
From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey
You are the noblest among noble men, and finer soldiers than the Russians, and a chaster woman than the Empress Elizabeth, are not to be found anywhere.
From The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
While others dream Strong flatt'ries on a fain'd or borrow'd theam, Thou shalt remaine in thine owne lustre bright, And adde unto 't LUCASTA'S chaster light.
From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace
For decades Bollywood produced the chastest of films: boy met girl, but there were no kisses, hips only thrust during dance numbers, and the audience knew that romance would be followed by marriage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fair fame, bright honour, virtue firm, rare grace, The chastest beauty in celestial frame,— These be the roots whence birth so noble came.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
She loves me, Bertrand; oh, too sure she loves me; Loves me with tenderest, truest, chastest passion; Loves me, oh, barbarous fate! as I love—Julia.
From The Fatal Falsehood by Hannah More
Skilful artists thou employest, And in chastest beauty joyest, Forms most delicate, pure, and clear, Frost-caught star-beams, fallen sheer In the night, and woven here In jewel-fretted tapestries.
From The Ontario High School Reader by A.E. Marty
I beg and hope, ever-honoured "Friend of my life and patron of my rhymes," that you will always give me credit for the sincerest, chastest gratitude.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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