chaste

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

She says the idea of the Sisterhood choosing to be chaste and not have men around is something considered “intensely mysterious and threatening.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024

K-dramas are famously chaste, which is part of their global appeal.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023

Still, these were details ABC might have accounted for before constructing the sensitive, chaste gentleman fantasy that made everyone weak in the knees.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2023

I turned aside from Hamlet's lips after one chaste kiss, and we parted for the night.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

He is often puerile, diffuse, and artificial, and seems to have but little acquaintance with those chaster and severer graces, by whom the epic muse would be most suitably attended.

From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson

And my chaster imperial love, what were you too but earthliness?

From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus

A clear Canadian night, appearing a new and chaster version of the day, greeted her.

From The Advocate by Charles Heavysege

His taste was much simpler, chaster, and less inclined to the florid and Asiatic, than that of Cicero.

From "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Julius Caesar

It was among the earliest of the terraces in the Park, and its whimsical contrast with the chaster beauties of the adjoining structures soon became the signal for critical pasquinade.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 by Various

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

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

From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins

Is it because of this lesser sensuous charm that the art of the piano is considered the chastest of all instruments?

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann

Nor think thou seest a wild disorder here; Through this illustrious chaos to the sight, Arrangement neat, and chastest order, reign.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

Foam at the mouth because King Thomas, lord Not only of your vassals but amours, Thro' chastest honour of the Decalogue Hath used the full authority of his Church To put her into Godstow nunnery.

From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson