Proper
Virginal
Virginal adjective - Free from any trace of the coarse or indecent.
Usage example: the romance between the young boy and girl is portrayed with virginal innocence that is touching in this day and age
Proper and virginal are semantically related in chaste topic. Sometimes you can use "Proper" instead an adjective "Virginal".
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Both words in one sentence
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In Bloodhound, set several centuries before the series proper, we begin to learn of the rise of the worship of The Gentle Mother aspect of The Goddess which supports demure, virginal, separated, and stereotypical female medieval ideas and aspects.
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This is gender-flipped in Gossip Girl, with Blair as an uptight, proper, virginal lady, and Chuck a hedonist who likes his hookers to come in twos.
Source: Uptight Loves Wild - In Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, the passionate, loud, lusty, and rather promiscuous Jack Aubrey falls deeply for Sophie Williams, a proper, virginal, and as it turns out rather undersexed young lady.
Source: Nobody Thinks It Will Work
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