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unˈchasteness
[f. unchaste a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being unchaste; impurity.
1530Palsgr. 285/1 Unchastnesse, impudicité. 1548Cranmer Catech. 66 Wher yought doth both heare and see vnchastnes, there the infection of vncleannes spreadeth abrode. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God i. xviii. (1620) 27 It were no vnchastenesse in her to suffer the rape vnwillingly. 1653Baxter Worcester Petit. Def. 38 Would you permit any rogues that will, to have access to your wives, and solicit them to Unchasteness? 1828E. Irving Last Days 239 If I were to come to speak of unchasteness. |