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

The general effect is that of chasteness and a certain kind of solidity.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

A shrew? you wrong her; all the town admires her For mildness, chasteness, and humility.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various