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chaste
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chaste as in:  remained chaste

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    Jacob remained chaste until he met his future spouse.
    chaste = a virgin
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    If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.†  (source)
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    Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    Davis drove me home, walked me to the door, and kissed me chastely on my sweaty lips.  (source)
    chastely = in a non-sexual manner
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    Bertha Mason, the true daughter of an infamous mother, dragged me through all the hideous and degrading agonies which must attend a man bound to a wife at once intemperate and unchaste.  (source)
    unchaste = sexually active outside of marriage
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unchaste means not and reverses the meaning of chaste. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    In spite of the corrupt physical ways our passion had begun to take, the photographs of Yvette that I preferred were the chastest.†  (source)
    chastest = most chaste
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    Our tongues met and we kissed with a formal, comical chasteness.†  (source)
    chasteness = the state or degree of being non-sexual
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    You do not scruple to make a libertine of that noble man; you call him a sensualist as coolly as if you were speaking the truth, and yet it would not be possible to find a chaster man.†  (source)
    chaster = more chaste
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    I kept imagining the three of them, one to a room, the lights unchastely left on.†  (source)
    unchastely = in a sexual manner
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unchastely means not and reverses the meaning of chastely. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    It seems that McCandless was drawn to women but remained largely or entirely celibate, as chaste as a monk.  (source)
    chaste = without sexual intercourse
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    Taking the edges of the sheet, she wrapped it chastely around herself.†  (source)
    chastely = in a non-sexual manner
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    Oh sister of Aaron; your father was not unrighteous nor was your mother unchaste.†  (source)
    unchaste = sexually experienced or active; or involving sexual desire
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"It's a superior article, a most desirable color, quite chaste and genteel," he said, shaking out a comfortable gray shawl, and throwing it over Jo's shoulders.  (source)
chaste = having an unornamented simple style
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