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

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

I resolve to be chaste, as that is a noble thing to do.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Her bosom is love's paradise,      There is no heav'n but in her eyes;      She's chaster than the turtle-dove,      And fairer than the queen of love:      Yet all perfections do combine      To beautifie my Valentine.

From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace

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

From Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Henry Fielding

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

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

Oh, she is chaster than lily-buds in her sweet body! … but in her spirit she is wedded—wedded to me, Sah-luma, whom thou, O King, hast ever delighted to honor!

From Ardath by Marie Corelli

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

You were the most charming and the chastest ornament of it.

From The Grip of Desire by Hector France

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

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

Because, in spite of them, you are the chastest and most refined man I know.

From Three Comedies by R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) Sharp