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Definition
not having sexual intercourse (ever, outside of marriage, or for a long time); or not involving sexual desireMuch less commonly, chaste can refer to an unornamented simple style.
- If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- He had resolved from the first to tell her two things—that he was not chaste as she was, and that he was not a believer.Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
- Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Three Musketeers
- Carlo, his love .... was chaste.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions.C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
- It chastely rebuked the restless husbands, yet brought them a message of healing.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- The occasional Circler looked up to smile at her, to wave chastely at the camera, at her audience, before returning to the work at hand.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- I must be chaste and humble and contrite.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- Suddenly she came upon a stout gentleman in a silk hat and a chaste black coat, whose decorous row of buttons reached from his chin to his knees.Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- And all throughout you must be the favorite chaste love of the people.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- In which I have commended to his goodness The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter; The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her!William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII
- Moushumi stays chastely on the floor above, next door to her parents, though by now she and Gogol are practically living together at her place.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- Will you give horns, chaste lady? do not so.William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost
- She colored a little and went on in a whisper, "By no means were we to take any comfort of each other's bodies, but lie always chaste.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- Then he said there should be three white bulls that should enchieve it, and the two should be maidens, and the third should be chaste.Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
- Then it was all quite swift and natural, as chaste as it could ever be.Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
- Now we sleep together under the same mosquito net, chastely.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- I think she is a completely chaste person.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- In spite of the corrupt physical ways our passion had begun to take, the photographs of Yvette that I preferred were the chastest.V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
- If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden