chaste

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

He called it “an excellent example of the Midcentury Modern style,” noting its Googie-style sign, “simple geometric volumes, low sloped roof, relatively chaste exterior walls and decorative concrete blocks.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

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

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

He believed there was not a chaster damsel in the universe.

From Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Henry Fielding

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

From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus

A clear Canadian night, appearing a new and chaster version of the day, greeted her.

From The Advocate by Charles Heavysege

This school—except in so far as Cicero had criticized it for going to extremes—had not yet been effectively challenged by the rising generation of the chaster Atticists.

From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank

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

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

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

In the town of Pampeluna there lived a lady who was accounted beautiful and virtuous, as well as the chastest and most pious in the land.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) by George Saintsbury

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

From The Grip of Desire by Hector France