chaste

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

“Be moderate in your desires, Ophelia. Bridle your tongue, and lock up your chaste treasure,” Elnora warned.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The chaster the relations between the betrothed, the less occasion for future regrets and recriminations.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan

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

From Style by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

He believed there was not a chaster damsel in the universe.

From Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Henry Fielding

It was among the earliest of the terraces in the Park, and its whimsical contrast with the chaster beauties of the adjoining structures soon became the signal for critical pasquinade.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 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 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

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

It were treason to the chastest of hearts, it were sacrilege to the divinest form that ever visited this lower world, but to admit the possibility of Matilda's infidelity.

From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by William Godwin

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 poet and royalest, Vergilius Maro, that to the memory of man is known.’

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce