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Meanings of chaste in English

Portuguese
casto
Catalan
cast

Morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)

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        casto

        Chaste.

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                Usage of chaste in English
                1
                He wouldn't be satisfied with a few chaste kisses for much longer.
                The manning grooms: bride on the loose\same time, next year
                2
                The Irish female servants are remarkably chaste in their language and deportment.
                Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
                3
                The All-pitying God and the Mother chaste and pure hearkened to me.
                The Grip of Desire: The Story of a Parish-Priest
                4
                Romantic love, complete with hearts and turtle doves, is actually quite chaste.
                The Irish Times
                5
                The building must be either quite chaste, or excessively rich in decoration.
                The Poetry of Architecture / Or, the Architecture of the Nations...
                6
                That honor which is the very basis of civilization is essentially chaste.
                Heart and Soul by Maveric Post
                7
                She had been a good wife and mother; she was chaste, righteous.
                The Street of Seven Stars
                8
                Woman in the Nineteenth Century should be a pure, chaste, holy being.
                Woman in the Nineteenth Century / and Kindred Papers Relating to...
                9
                How chaste should be the thought, how refined the sentiment here inscribed.
                Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland
                10
                Impetuously, she darts forward and plants a chaste peck on his cheek.
                The dog said bow-wow
                11
                I believed her chaste, and she was civil, and I was satisfied.
                London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
                12
                They seldom married before the age of thirty, and were singularly chaste.
                The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
                13
                In the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy.
                Les Misérables
                14
                Those who live in chaste marriages, as before described, have all these.
                Spiritual Life and the Word of God
                15
                I saw her hold herself aloof and dubious, proud and coldly chaste.
                The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
                16
                Now I know that you, above all others, are pure and chaste.
                The Honor of the Name
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                Translations for chaste
                Portuguese
                castocasta
                Catalan
                cast
                Chaste through the time
                Chaste across language varieties
                United Kingdom
                Common
                United States of America
                Less common