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

His hair was smoothed to perfection, his canvas shoes a chaste white, and he looked sporty in his linen knickers, his belted coat with a boutonniere of Queen Anne’s Lace, and his ribbed, knee-length hose.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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

A fairer virgin never saw the sun; A chaster maid was never sworn a nun.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

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 Richard Lovelace

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

France, so we are told, purged and purified by the baptism of fire, shook off its tasteless frippery, and sought a chaster and purer mode....

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton

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

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 William Godwin

Our profession," he said, "is the chastest of all.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

Into that tender breast at night    The chastest stars may peep.

From Later Poems by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

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