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
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 he’ll do it with the same playbook he brought to the politics of his marriage: Be charming, in the service of making radical ideals seem wholesome, chaste, and harmless.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2023
And all throughout you must be the favorite chaste love of the people.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
He believed there was not a chaster damsel in the universe.
From Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Henry Fielding
His taste was much simpler, chaster, and disinclined to the florid and ornamental, than that of Cicero.
From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey
A clear Canadian night, appearing a new and chaster version of the day, greeted her.
From The Advocate by Charles Heavysege
And my chaster imperial love, what were you too but earthliness?
From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus
I doubt whether there is anything chaster than the sense of beauty in abstract form; he has no inkling of this.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
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
Our service,"—such were his words,—"is the chastest of all.
From Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by John Frederick Schroeder
The chastest constancy will I ever preserve to thy image.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Is it because of this lesser sensuous charm that the art of the piano is considered the chastest of all instruments?
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann
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
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Mythology
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The Odyssey
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