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Definition
not having sexual intercourse (ever, outside of marriage, or for a long time); or not involving sexual desire
- You may talk of Bouguereau if you will: there is a cheerful disgustingness in the sound which excites laughter; but let us not sully our chaste lips with the names of J. Ruskin, G. F. Watts, or E. B. Jones.'41-42 — Chapters 41-42 (52% in)
- It was a strange life, dark and tortured, in which men and women showed to remorseless eyes the evil that was in their hearts: a fair face concealed a depraved mind; the virtuous used virtue as a mask to hide their secret vice, the seeming-strong fainted within with their weakness; the honest were corrupt, the chaste were lewd.29-30 — Chapters 29-30 (9% in)
There are no more uses of "chaste" in Of Human Bondage.
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