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

He scorned Aphrodite, he worshiped only Artemis, the huntress chaste and fair.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Then blush no more; but let thy chaster flame, That knows no cause, know no effects of shame.

From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Thomas Stanley

A clear Canadian night, appearing a new and chaster version of the day, greeted her.

From The Advocate by Charles Heavysege

"Unmatcht for beauty, chaster than the ayre," wrote one poet.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell

A fairer virgin never saw the sun; A chaster maid was never sworn a nun.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

Milton, a chaster and more unerring master of the art than Shakespeare, reveals no such lovable personality. 

From Style by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

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

Not prudence can defend, or virtue save; Disease invades the chastest temperance; And punishment the guiltless; and alarm, 270 Through thickest shades pursues the fond of peace.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

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

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

Foam at the mouth because King Thomas, lord Not only of your vassals but amours, Thro' chastest honour of the Decalogue Hath used the full authority of his Church To put her into Godstow nunnery.

From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson