chaste

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

He called it “an excellent example of the Midcentury Modern style,” noting its Googie-style sign, “simple geometric volumes, low sloped roof, relatively chaste exterior walls and decorative concrete blocks.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

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 all throughout you must be the favorite chaste love of the people.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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 Julius Caesar

This school—except in so far as Cicero had criticized it for going to extremes—had not yet been effectively challenged by the rising generation of the chaster Atticists.

From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank

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 Vernon Lee

His taste was much simpler, chaster, and disinclined to the florid and ornamental, than that of Cicero.

From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey

I doubt whether there is anything chaster than the sense of beauty in abstract form; he has no inkling of this.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington

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

It may be said of the entire performance, that it is decidedly the best chronological series, and the chastest historical narrative, suited to the capacity of the juvenile mind, that has yet appeared.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Thomas P. Jones

In the town of Pampeluna there lived a lady who was accounted beautiful and virtuous, as well as the chastest and most pious in the land.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) by George Saintsbury

"Our profession is the chastest of all," it read.

From The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution by James Francis Barrett

The poet bewails his unsuccessful love for a beautiful youth, yet professing the chastest affection.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli