chaste

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

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

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

These were not the dainty and chaste twirls and curtseys of the ballerinas at Lincoln Center.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

You are the noblest among noble men, and finer soldiers than the Russians, and a chaster woman than the Empress Elizabeth, are not to be found anywhere.

From The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Mme. d'Albany writes with the freedom and precision of a Continental woman of the world of eighty years ago; and her remarks lose too much or gain too much by translation into our chaster language.

From The Countess of Albany by Vernon Lee

But it remained for the chaster genius of Addison to banish this painful topic from his elegant pages.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

Nor Cupid there less blood doth spill, But heads his shafts with chaster love, Not feather’d with a sparrow’s quill, But of a dove.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

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

Evil tongues do not spare even the chastest and most admirable souls.

From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue

Our service,"—such were his words,—"is the chastest of all.

From Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by John Frederick Schroeder

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

From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins

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