chaste

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

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 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

“Your lady may prefer this. It’s a superior article, a most desirable color, quite chaste and genteel,” he said, shaking out a comfortable gray shawl, and throwing it over Jo’s shoulders.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

While others dream Strong flatt'ries on a fain'd or borrow'd theam, Thou shalt remaine in thine owne lustre bright, And adde unto 't LUCASTA'S chaster light.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

"Unmatcht for beauty, chaster than the ayre," wrote one poet.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

Not her own guardian angel eyes     With chaster tenderness his care, Not purer her own wishes rise,     Not holier her own sighs in prayer.

From A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers by Various

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 Callan, Charles Jerome

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 Cicero, Marcus Tullius

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

Ga. Not wholly, but I read generally the chastest of them, and if I meet with any Thing that is not modest, I pass that by, as Ulysses passed by the Sirens, stopping his Ears.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

It were treason to the chastest of hearts, it were sacrilege to the divinest form that ever visited this lower world, but to admit the possibility of Matilda's infidelity.

From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by Godwin, William

‘The chastest poet and royalest, Vergilius Maro, that to the memory of man is known.’

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

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 Burns, Robert