chasteness

Example Sentences

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What the scandal does definitively show is that many who have advocated chasteness have shown contempt for it themselves.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2018

This filial defense, almost Victorian in its chasteness, followed minutes after an earlier tweet—swiftly deleted—that was rather less prim.

From Newsweek • Jul. 9, 2012

Boy Fenwick's known chasteness bore them out and Iris went about her life in a manner that seemed to bear them out.

From Time Magazine Archive

For chasteness, harmony, symmetry, and grace, the Bank of Ireland, if it has any equals at all in modern architecture, has very few.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

It combines "classical chasteness of contour with the fragrance of romanticism."

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James