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unˈchastity
[un-1 12 and 5 b.]
Lack of chastity; sexual impurity; lasciviousness.
1382Wyclif Rom. xiii. 13 Not in couchis and vnchastitees, not in stryf and in enuye. a1400Pauline Ep. (Powell) 2 Cor. xii. 21 Penaunce of þeyre vnclennesse..and vnchastite Þat þey han done. 1483Cath. Angl. 60/1 Vn Chastite, incontinencia. 1550Bale Apol. 141 b, They haue in confessions, made kinges wiues and daughters to make vowes of vnchastyte vnto them. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 42 That she might liue chaste vestall Priest to Venus the queene of vnchastitie. 1639Habington Castara ii. (Arb.) 80 Against them who lay unchastity to the sex of Women. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. 1 Tim. v. 1–2 Carefully shunning all that savoureth of Immodesty or Unchastity. a1763W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819) 49 It might perhaps be too severe a censure to charge a woman with unchastity, who had only transgressed with one man. 1846Wright Ess. Mid. Ages I. ii. 56 [In] the thirteenth century..unchastity was certainly not regarded as one of the greatest of sins. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. 297 Church-penance for unchastity was formerly common in England. |