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

In the style of their dress, also, they occasionally approach so near the fashions generally worn, that they are no longer distinguishable by the singularity of their dress, but by its simplicity and chasteness.

From Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress by Merrifield, Mary Philadelphia

He made the thing an artistic method, using it with the same power, though not the same chasteness, as George Eliot after him.

From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick