chaste

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

He called it “an excellent example of the Midcentury Modern style,” noting its Googie-style sign, “simple geometric volumes, low sloped roof, relatively chaste exterior walls and decorative concrete blocks.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

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

So instead, she just nodded and gave her great-aunt a chaste kiss on the cheek.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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 disinclined to the florid and ornamental, than that of Cicero.

From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey

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

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

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

Moreover, he adds, the chaste man is unable to choose a wife wisely, and it is among teachers and clergymen—the chastest class—that most unhappy marriages are made.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

The chastest persons have been, and are, not the virgins and celibates, but the married.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

Be not displeased that these my papers should Bewray unto the world how fair thou art; Or that my wits have showed the best they could The chastest flame that ever warmèd heart.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Martha Foote Crow

Our profession," he said, "is the chastest of all.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various