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

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

And all throughout you must be the favorite chaste love of the people.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Milton, a chaster and more unerring master of the art than Shakespeare, reveals no such lovable personality. 

From Style by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

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

Her bosom is love's paradise,      There is no heav'n but in her eyes;      She's chaster than the turtle-dove,      And fairer than the queen of love:      Yet all perfections do combine      To beautifie my Valentine.

From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace

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

A fairer virgin never saw the sun; A chaster maid was never sworn a nun.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

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

The poet bewails his unsuccessful love for a beautiful youth, yet professing the chastest affection.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

You were the most charming and the chastest ornament of it.

From The Grip of Desire by Hector France

Fair fame, bright honour, virtue firm, rare grace, The chastest beauty in celestial frame,— These be the roots whence birth so noble came.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell

One day lives always in my memory; one chastest, heavenliest day of communion with the soul of things.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller