chaste

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

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

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

These were not the dainty and chaste twirls and curtseys of the ballerinas at Lincoln Center.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

This school—except in so far as Cicero had criticized it for going to extremes—had not yet been effectively challenged by the rising generation of the chaster Atticists.

From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank

His taste was much simpler, chaster, and disinclined to the florid and ornamental, than that of Cicero.

From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey

While others dream Strong flatt'ries on a fain'd or borrow'd theam, Thou shalt remaine in thine owne lustre bright, And adde unto 't LUCASTA'S chaster light.

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

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

Moreover, he adds, the chaste man is unable to choose a wife wisely, and it is among teachers and clergymen—the chastest class—that most unhappy marriages are made.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

The poet bewails his unsuccessful love for a beautiful youth, yet professing the chastest affection.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

He was of all comedians the chastest and closest observer of nature.

From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins

Our profession," he said, "is the chastest of all.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various