1 (old-fashioned) not having sex with anyone; only having sex with the person that you are married to:
to remain chaste
2 (formal) not expressing sexual feelings:
She gave him a chaste kiss on the cheek.
3 (formal) simple and plain in style; not decorated:
the cool, chaste interior of the hall * She wore a chaste gold chain around her neck.
chastely adverb:
He kissed her chastely on the cheek.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for chaste is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is chaste a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, chaste is tagged as adjective.
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