chaste

Jesus is widely thought to have never married and to have lived a chaste life.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

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

Apart from the central metaphor, its LGBTQ+-ness is expressed in brief, chaste moments of closeness between the two main male characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Some sappy song would be playing while they flashed to Ashley and me sharing lunch, talking, laughing, looking coy, holding hands—and ending with that first chaste kiss.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

His taste was much simpler, chaster, and less inclined to the florid and Asiatic, than that of Cicero.

From "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Caesar, Julius

France, so we are told, purged and purified by the baptism of fire, shook off its tasteless frippery, and sought a chaster and purer mode....

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William

For where can we find any one who is chaster than this young man? who is more modest? where have we among our youth a more illustrious example of the old-fashioned strictness?

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius

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 Swedenborg, Emanuel

Mme. d'Albany writes with the freedom and precision of a Continental woman of the world of eighty years ago; and her remarks lose too much or gain too much by translation into our chaster language.

From The Countess of Albany by Lee, Vernon

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

Ga. Not wholly, but I read generally the chastest of them, and if I meet with any Thing that is not modest, I pass that by, as Ulysses passed by the Sirens, stopping his Ears.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

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 Campbell, Thomas

You were the most charming and the chastest ornament of it.

From The Grip of Desire by France, Hector

Skilful artists thou employest, And in chastest beauty joyest— Forms most delicate, pure, and clear, Frost-caught starbeams fallen sheer In the night, and woven here In jewel-fretted tapestries.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education