chaste

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

She says the idea of the Sisterhood choosing to be chaste and not have men around is something considered “intensely mysterious and threatening.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024

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

Their engagement, which coincided with the Second World War, had been a chaste affair.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

From Style by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

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

Mar. Mrs. Cross, I maintain, no Woman in the Play-House, nor out of the Play-house, can be chaster than I ma'e Isabella, but trouble your Head no further, I'll do the Part my self.

From The Female Wits by Anonymous

The chaster the relations between the betrothed, the less occasion for future regrets and recriminations.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan

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

The chastest constancy will I ever preserve to thy image.

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Pa. No, nothing of that, she was one of the chastest Women in the World.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus

Because, in spite of them, you are the chastest and most refined man I know.

From Three Comedies by R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) Sharp

Foam at the mouth because King Thomas, lord Not only of your vassals but amours, Thro' chastest honour of the Decalogue Hath used the full authority of his Church To put her into Godstow nunnery.

From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson