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

Apart from the central metaphor, its LGBTQ+-ness is expressed in brief, chaste moments of closeness between the two main male characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

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

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

He believed there was not a chaster damsel in the universe.

From Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Henry Fielding

Oh, she is chaster than lily-buds in her sweet body! … but in her spirit she is wedded—wedded to me, Sah-luma, whom thou, O King, hast ever delighted to honor!

From Ardath by Marie Corelli

For where can we find any one who is chaster than this young man? who is more modest? where have we among our youth a more illustrious example of the old-fashioned strictness?

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey

I doubt whether there is anything chaster than the sense of beauty in abstract form; he has no inkling of this.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington

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

Into that tender breast at night    The chastest stars may peep.

From Later Poems by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

I beg and hope, ever-honoured "Friend of my life and patron of my rhymes," that you will always give me credit for the sincerest, chastest gratitude.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

It were treason to the chastest of hearts, it were sacrilege to the divinest form that ever visited this lower world, but to admit the possibility of Matilda's infidelity.

From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by William Godwin

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

From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins