chasteness

Example Sentences

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What the scandal does definitively show is that many who have advocated chasteness have shown contempt for it themselves.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2018

This filial defense, almost Victorian in its chasteness, followed minutes after an earlier tweet—swiftly deleted—that was rather less prim.

From Newsweek • Jul. 9, 2012

Boy Fenwick's known chasteness bore them out and Iris went about her life in a manner that seemed to bear them out.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may be that the style pleases by contrast, and that we appreciate its genuine chasteness the more, because we have nothing similar to it in our own vernacular literature.

From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)

That delicacy, refinement, and chasteness, so restraining and so purifying to man in her association, is the soul of civilization—the salt of the earth.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry