chaste(2) (iou) and Neville (as used in expressions) (sh)

chaste(2) (iou)

chaste adjective. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin castus.]
Abstaining from unlawful or immoral or all sexual intercourse; pure, virginal. ME.
b. Unmarried, single. ME-L16.
Free from guilt, innocent. ME-M16.
fig. Undefiled, stainless. E17.
Shakespeare Othello Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars.
Decent, seemly, esp. in speech. E17.
L. Sterne The Hero's horse was a horse of chaste deportment.
Pure in taste or style, unadorned, simple; restrained, severe. M18.
J. Warton So chaste and correct a writer. C. Hampton A large, chaste desk, its only ornament a large granite crucifix.
Comb.: chaste-tree [cf. AGNUS CASTUS] a violet-flowered aromatic shrub of the verbena family, Vitex agnus-castus, native to southern Europe which is reputed to reduce sexual desire.
chastely adverb ME.
chasteness noun LME.