chaste

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

Apart from the central metaphor, its LGBTQ+-ness is expressed in brief, chaste moments of closeness between the two main male characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Her gown was cream and green, with long lace sleeves, so modest and so innocent that any man who looked at her might think her the most chaste of maids.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

But it remained for the chaster genius of Addison to banish this painful topic from his elegant pages.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

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

From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus

The very crudeness of their speech made chaster yet the childish thought her guileless utterance had caught from spirit-depths beyond our reach.

From Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 10 by James Whitcomb Riley

He is often puerile, diffuse, and artificial, and seems to have but little acquaintance with those chaster and severer graces, by whom the epic muse would be most suitably attended.

From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson

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

The chastest persons have been, and are, not the virgins and celibates, but the married.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

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 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

Into that tender breast at night    The chastest stars may peep.

From Later Poems by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell