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Definition of Chastest
1. chaste [adj] - See also: chaste
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chastest
Literary usage of Chastest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fall of Tollan by James Edward Routh (1905)
"Spreading around on every gentle breeze chastest of perfumes faint; amid the hall
Were boards of ebony, like polished dusk, Whereon lay spread the banquet ..."
2. Seventy Sonnets of Camoens: Portuguese Text and Translation. With Original Poems by Luís de Camões (1881)
"rI ""HE eyes where love in chastest fire would glow, Joying to be consumed amidst
their light, The face whereon with wondrous lustre bright The purple rose ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Kyd by Thomas Kyd (1901)
"To bind it fast: Oh, I know womens harts What stuffe they are made of, my Lord :
gifts and giuing Will melt the chastest seeming female liuing. Lor. ..."
4. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1842)
"... To thee this May we sing, by whom Our roses from the lilies bloom. Upon this
royal flower, Sprung from the chastest* bed, Thy glorious sweetness shower ..."
5. City Architecture, Or, Designs for Dwelling Houses, Stores, Hotels, Etc by Marriott Field (1853)
"we believe, ol Italian street architecture ; the Metropolitan, which we consider
the chastest and best-proportioned Hotel-front yet erected ; Stewart's ..."
6. Ancient Poetical Tracts of the Sixteenth Century: Reprinted from Unique by Edward Francis Rimbault (1842)
"Upon this royal flower, Sprung from the chastest* bed, Thy glorious sweetness
shower ; And first let myrtles crowne his head, Then palms and ..."
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