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

The elegance and the chasteness of Jowett's English did more for me in this respect than my years of pruning.

From From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Irvine, Alexander

"Indefinable chasteness," he puckered his lips and repeated the phrase in a ruminating way.

From Wings of the Wind by Harris, Credo Fitch