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unˈchaste, a.
[un-1 7.]
Not chaste; lacking chastity; impure, lascivious: a. Of persons, etc.
1382Wyclif Rev. xxii. 15 Forsothe with oute forth, houndes, and venym doers,..and vnchaast men, and manquellers. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 173 Sardanapallus..was ful vnchast, and..þey þat beeþ swiþe vnchast beeþ i-cleped Sardanapally. c1422Hoccleve Min. Poems 216 This tale..is of a womman þat was vnchaast. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 95 He is so incontynent & vnchaste yt his mynde is blynde. 1564tr. Martyr's Comm. Judges xxi. 287 b, Sempronia a certayne lasciuious & vnchast woman. 1626Bacon New Atl. (1650) 23 Their usuall saying is, That whosoever is unchaste cannot reverence himselfe. 1671Milton Samson 321 To seek in marriage that fallacious Bride, Unclean, unchaste. 1780Cowper The Doves 29 If, fickle and unchaste,..Thou couldst become unkind at last, And scorn thy present lot. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. 71 These unchaste girls are always impudent.
absol.1390Gower Conf. III. 269 And thus thunchaste was chastised. 1712Steele Spect. No. 286 ⁋ 1 The Unchaste are provoked to see their Vice exposed. 1888Hooker's Wks. III. 789/2 The unchaste, excluded from absolution by Tertullian.
b. Of life, habits, etc.
1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 21 §8 Withoute plaine declaracion before of her unchaste lief. 1546Bale (title), The Actes of Englysh votaryes, comprehendynge their vnchast practyses and examples by all ages. 1605Shakes. Lear i. i. 231 It is..No vnchaste action or dishonoured step That hath depriu'd me of your Grace and fauour. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xxiii. (1687) 237 What a loss they are at sometimes..to satisfie an unchaste desire? 1711Shaftesbury Charac. II. 109 Even the unchastest Love borrows largely from this Source. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. ix. (1855) 145 You read of the victims of unchaste life hurried on the dark whirlwind for ever. |