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

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

Clarke's style possessed at once the chiselled chasteness of a Greek marble column and the elaborate deviltry of the late Renaissance.

From The House of the Vampire by Viereck, George Sylvester