(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.
Virginal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.
(n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.
(v. i.) To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(2) Tritium-labeled ribonucleic acid precursors, including cytidine, uridine, and orotic acid, were injected into rats with dated pregnancies (14 to 21 days) and virgin rats.
(3) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
(4) The hepatic balance for valine, leucine and isoleucine has been measured in anaesthetized virgin controls and 9 and 12-day pregnant rats.
(5) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(6) In the early, middle and late periods of pregnancy, axonal swelling, agglutination of axonal cytoplasm and mitochondrial breakdown were observed, but no marked degeneration appeared in virgin rat uteri.
(7) The Virgin train service from London Euston to Glasgow Central derailed on the west coast mainline near Grayrigg on 23 February 2007, with 109 people on board.
(8) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
(9) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.
(10) These results suggest that HTB-9.3 clone represents virgin T cells and CB-11.4 clone-primed T cells at least in alloreactivity.
(11) Previous studies using anti-CD45R monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have shown that normal CD4+ T cells can be separated into virgin and memory cells based on their level of expression of CD45R.
(12) Overall, only 26% of respondents considered virginity at the time of marriage to be important.
(13) Last month Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's chief executive, said he was "not surprised" YouView had run into trouble, given the number of partners involved, adding that the cable company intended to "take advantage" of the delay.
(14) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
(15) Second, female preintervention Comparison program virgins used effective contraceptive methods more consistently than those who attended the HBM-SLT program (p less than 0.01); among males, the intervention programs were equally effective.
(16) Germfree colostrum-deprived piglets are immunologically "virgin" and extremely susceptible to microbial infection due to lack of passive maternal immunity.
(17) In contrast to their inability to stimulate virgin, alloreactive CD4+ T cells, astrocytes were able to specifically stimulate an alloreactive CD4+ T cell line.
(18) I’ve had run-ins with Virgin train lavatories too.
(19) Virgin Trains, which looked set for imminent extinction, is now confident it will be allowed to run the west coast service in the interim, and Branson said he hoped a new, transparent process would mean his company could also soon target the east coast line again .
(20) The occurrence was highest, the degree most severe, and the location exclusively myocardial in C3H and C3Hf mated females, irrespective of parity, whereas virginal females of these strains were entirely free of disease even after administration of exogenous progesterone.