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

And all throughout you must be the favorite chaste love of the people.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

And my chaster imperial love, what were you too but earthliness?

From Majesty A Novel by Couperus, Louis

Nor Cupid there less blood doth spill, But heads his shafts with chaster love, Not feather’d with a sparrow’s quill, But of a dove.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

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 Caesar, Julius

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 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

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

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

You were the most charming and the chastest ornament of it.

From The Grip of Desire by France, Hector

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 Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Not prudence can defend, or virtue save; Disease invades the chastest temperance; And punishment the guiltless; and alarm, 270 Through thickest shades pursues the fond of peace.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward