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

Mr. Henry was inferior to Lee in the gracefulness of his action, and perhaps also in the chasteness of his language; yet his language was seldom incorrect, and his address always striking.

From Patrick Henry by Tyler, Moses Coit

The elegance and the chasteness of Jowett's English did more for me in this respect than my years of pruning.

From From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Irvine, Alexander