Chaste

chaste

adjective \ˈchāst\
: not having sex
: morally pure or decent : not sinful
: simple or plain

Young Goodman Brown By Nathaniel Hawthorne Paragraph 56.

But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes

Reused With Meaning
But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these decent dames and dewy virgins


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