chaste

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

It keeps the romance chaste, features an appealing diverse cast and skips the Sam Elliot mentor character altogether.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2024

K-dramas are famously chaste, which is part of their global appeal.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023

And he’ll do it with the same playbook he brought to the politics of his marriage: Be charming, in the service of making radical ideals seem wholesome, chaste, and harmless.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2023

Their engagement, which coincided with the Second World War, had been a chaste affair.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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 William Walton

The cup I fill, of chaster gold, Upon the lighted altar stands; There, when the gates of heaven unfold, The priest exalts it in his hands.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

If those are to be delineated at all—and, with a view to their amendment, surely they may—the task could hardly be executed with a chaster and less offensive pencil.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

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 Marcus Tullius Cicero

And my chaster imperial love, what were you too but earthliness?

From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus

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

Our profession," he said, "is the chastest of all.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

The inside of the domes are very beautifully enamelled in the chastest colours, and with most excellent taste, and would put to shame the most handsome drawing-room in London, I should think.

From Campaign of the Indus by T.W.E. Holdsworth

The chastest of poets is as little afraid as the Prayer Book of frank acceptance of the physical facts which must commonly be the basis of its spiritual relation.

From Milton by John Cann Bailey

Moreover, he adds, the chaste man is unable to choose a wife wisely, and it is among teachers and clergymen—the chastest class—that most unhappy marriages are made.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis