chaste

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

I turned aside from Hamlet's lips after one chaste kiss, and we parted for the night.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

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

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

His taste was much simpler, chaster, and less inclined to the florid and Asiatic, than that of Cicero.

From "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Julius Caesar

The elevation into superior heat with women is an elevation into chaster and purer conjugial love, and continually towards the conjugial principle, which from creation lies concealed in their inmost principles, 188.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

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

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

It may be said of the entire performance, that it is decidedly the best chronological series, and the chastest historical narrative, suited to the capacity of the juvenile mind, that has yet appeared.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Thomas P. Jones

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

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 Desiderius Erasmus