chaste

Jesus is widely thought to have never married and to have lived a chaste life.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

He called it “an excellent example of the Midcentury Modern style,” noting its Googie-style sign, “simple geometric volumes, low sloped roof, relatively chaste exterior walls and decorative concrete blocks.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

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

So instead, she just nodded and gave her great-aunt a chaste kiss on the cheek.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

France, so we are told, purged and purified by the baptism of fire, shook off its tasteless frippery, and sought a chaster and purer mode....

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton

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

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

From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus

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

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

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

"Our profession," said Washington, "is the chastest of all; even the shadow of a fault tarnishes the lustre of our finest achievements."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various

In the town of Pampeluna there lived a lady who was accounted beautiful and virtuous, as well as the chastest and most pious in the land.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) by George Saintsbury

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

Our service,"—such were his words,—"is the chastest of all.

From Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by John Frederick Schroeder