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

“Be moderate in your desires, Ophelia. Bridle your tongue, and lock up your chaste treasure,” Elnora warned.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey

Then blush no more; but let thy chaster flame, That knows no cause, know no effects of shame.

From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Thomas Stanley

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

The elevation into superior heat with women is an elevation into chaster and purer conjugial love, and continually towards the conjugial principle, which from creation lies concealed in their inmost principles, 188.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

The very crudeness of their speech made chaster yet the childish thought her guileless utterance had caught from spirit-depths beyond our reach.

From Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 10 by James Whitcomb Riley

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

"Our profession," said Washington, "is the chastest of all; even the shadow of a fault tarnishes the lustre of our finest achievements."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various

In the town of Pampeluna there lived a lady who was accounted beautiful and virtuous, as well as the chastest and most pious in the land.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) by George Saintsbury

Because, in spite of them, you are the chastest and most refined man I know.

From Three Comedies by R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) Sharp

The chastest of poets is as little afraid as the Prayer Book of frank acceptance of the physical facts which must commonly be the basis of its spiritual relation.

From Milton by John Cann Bailey