(a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
(a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.
(a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.
(a.) Unmarried.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were also remote from Chast, not particularly nurturing, and very much parents, not friends.
(2) Watson, of Harry Potter fame, tweeted a photograph of herself doubled up in stitches and linking to the Guardian report of the Twitter backlash against Turkish deputy prime minister Bülent Arinç, who said in a speech to mark Eid al-Fitr on Monday that women should be "chaste", know the difference between public and private, and "she should not laugh in public".
(3) Chast did all the things one has to do; she put them somewhere decent and clean.
(4) As her parents lay dying, Chast dragged herself back to their apartment and started the grim task of sifting through a lifetime of worthless possessions.
(5) We are in the kitchen of Chast's house, overlooking her garden.
(6) Awareness campaigns on the dangers of unprotected sex largely target the young, while the media continues to perpetuate the stereotype of older people as impotent and chaste or perverted and figures of ridicule.
(7) Those who know and love Chast's work think of her as the queen of family angst, a brilliant chronicler of domestic strife, and the account of her parents' last year – as they move from the apartment, to hospital, to a care home in Connecticut – is an extraordinary record of the love, fury and ambivalence that often characterises these experiences.
(8) Her lurid totem with black lacy detailing edged it over Richard’s more chaste mill and Luis’s industrial mechanism.
(9) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
(10) "Her emotions were very primary colours," says Chast.
(11) However, in the hot summer of 1912 an initially chaste and awkward relationship, punctuated with readings of Housman poems and stilted conversations about Eros, swiftly took wing.
(12) Roz Chast explores her relationship with her parents in her graphic memoir.
(13) Her father died first, aged 95, and as Chast's relationship with him had been closer, she was less riven by guilt than she was during her mother's last days.
(14) Chast had done right by them, but she was still sick with regret after they were gone.
(15) 2) Strictness in child rearing, shielding the child from any knowledge of sexual relations and its possible outcome in the hope of keeping her chaste but in fact often leading to early sexual relations.
(16) And so, when Chast's mother injured herself in a fall and her father started showing signs of dementia, Chast moved them to a care home near her house, where the contrast in weekly expenditure was so horrifying, she says, you could only laugh.
(17) But the feelings inside it would be false, because what all of us, young and old, felt was embarrassment and, on my part, sympathy for a father whose belief in chaste language had just been discounted as an unsophisticated prejudice by a famous person – an intellectual even, and we tended to like those – on television.
(18) Anne later said they had played cards in the bed, and told a lady-in-waiting that her husband was a perfect gentleman, giving her a greeting and a chaste kiss each night and before he left her in the morning.
(19) The first indication Roz Chast had that her elderly parents weren't coping was when she noticed the level of grime in their apartment.
(20) Nymphomaniac stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe, who recounts her life story to a chaste, lonely bachelor named Seligman, played by Stellan Skarsgård.
(1) Photograph: Fairfax Media via Getty Images Monis waged a campaign for years, writing letters to the families of Australian soldiers who had died in Afghanistan , labelling them child killers and their corpses unclean.
(2) The vendor asked $1m for the toilet, "uncleaned and in its original condition", writing: "Who knows how many of [his] stories were thought up and written while Salinger sat on this throne!"
(3) The exact cause of the deaths is not yet clear but officials said they suspected infection caused by unclean surgical equipment.
(4) Such actions would make some Muslims consider themselves unclean so they would stop praying.
(5) The aim is to make you feel guilty, unclean, a sinner in the eyes of God, and of course in the withering stare of the preacher.
(6) At the coronal cervix, the so-called uncleaned area, the path of the food bolus and its rubbing effect are said to be regulated by the coronal and gingival contours.
(7) It is dusty, unclean and you are given no cleaning stuff.
(8) 0.6 mm) on the cleaned than on the uncleaned sides.
(9) It was established that they enter the product by way of unclean production lines and implements, by the fermenting agent, by the air in the fermentation premises.
(10) The following variables were significantly associated with an increased risk of dehydration, after adjustment for age and other confounding variables: absence of the father from the home; low paternal education level; young age; maternal age 25-29 years or less than 20 years; mother of mixed race; high birth order; short birth interval; low birth weight; stunting, underweight and wasting; lack of breast-feeding; presence of other under-5-year-olds in the home; families with 4-5 members; lack of antenatal care; less than three doses of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus or poliomyelitis vaccine; previous admission to hospital; use of medicines during the fortnight prior to the episode; and living in an unclean home.
(11) Histologic study revealed patchy chronic inflammation at the surface of uncleaned filters but only benign fibrous tissue reaction for the cleaned filters.
(12) Histologic examinations after 4 weeks revealed bacterial growth on dentinal walls in 9 of the uncleaned and in 2 cleaned cavities.
(13) Anxious patients may overclean or overtreat sensitive genital skin in the belief that they are unclean or harbour a sexually transmitted disease.
(14) "For the church fathers, homosexuality is the most disgusting and unclean sin," he railed in a nine-page missive made public last week.
(15) Each year, millions of people acquire this infection by drinking unclean water.
(16) Community participation could be followed by a health education program aimed at the prevention of infectious diseases caused by an unclean environment and consumption of contaminated food.
(17) Vilks' cartoon caused outrage because dogs are considered unclean by conservative Muslims, and Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet for fear it could lead to idolatry.
(18) In addition, this test turned out to be an effective educational tool for heightening the awareness of people towards dangers of unclean drinking water.
(19) The root cause of the region’s smog problems, from a long-term perspective, is an unclean industrial and energy mix, which requires big changes,” said Chen Jining, China’s environmental minister, adding that he “felt guilty” about the toxic haze.
(20) The capitalist drive to convince us that female body hair is unnatural and unclean has been alarmingly successful.