chasteness
Example Sentences
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What the scandal does definitively show is that many who have advocated chasteness have shown contempt for it themselves.
From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2018
This filial defense, almost Victorian in its chasteness, followed minutes after an earlier tweet—swiftly deleted—that was rather less prim.
From Newsweek • Jul. 9, 2012
Boy Fenwick's known chasteness bore them out and Iris went about her life in a manner that seemed to bear them out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Henry was inferior to Lee in the gracefulness of his action, and perhaps also in the chasteness of his language; yet his language was seldom incorrect, and his address always striking.
From Patrick Henry by Tyler, Moses Coit
It may be that the style pleases by contrast, and that we appreciate its genuine chasteness the more, because we have nothing similar to it in our own vernacular literature.
From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)
