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chaste

[chayst] / tʃeɪst /


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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

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

The exposition by day might wear a chaste gown of white staff, but at night it danced barefoot and guzzled champagne.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

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 Emanuel Swedenborg

Nor Cupid there less blood doth spill, But heads his shafts with chaster love, Not feather’d with a sparrow’s quill, But of a dove.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

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

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

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

Be not displeased that these my papers should Bewray unto the world how fair thou art; Or that my wits have showed the best they could The chastest flame that ever warmèd heart.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Martha Foote Crow

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

Evil tongues do not spare even the chastest and most admirable souls.

From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue


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