chaste
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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
And all throughout you must be the favorite chaste love of the people.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
France, so we are told, purged and purified by the baptism of fire, shook off its tasteless frippery, and sought a chaster and purer mode....
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
And my chaster imperial love, what were you too but earthliness?
From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus
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
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
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
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
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
He was of all comedians the chastest and closest observer of nature.
From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins
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
She loves me, Bertrand; oh, too sure she loves me; Loves me with tenderest, truest, chastest passion; Loves me, oh, barbarous fate! as I love—Julia.
From The Fatal Falsehood by Hannah More
Vocabulary lists containing chaste
Mythology
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The Odyssey
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