单词 | unchaste |
释义 | unchasteadj. Not chaste; lacking chastity; impure, lascivious: a. Of persons, etc. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] incontinentc1380 unchaste1382 uncontinentc1384 follya1400 whorisha1530 whorey1554 Paphian1569 harlot1574 inchastea1596 loose-bodieda1616 philogenitive1816 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xxii. 15 Forsothe with oute forth, houndes, and venym doers,..and vnchaast men, and manquellers. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 173 Sardanapallus..was ful vnchast, and..þey þat beeþ swiþe vnchast beeþ i-cleped Sardanapally. c1422 T. Hoccleve Min. Poems 216 This tale..is of a womman þat was vnchaast. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. aviii He is so incontynent and vnchast: yt his mynde is blynde. 1564 tr. P. M. Vermigli Most Fruitfull & Learned Comm. xxi. 287 b Sempronia a certayne lasciuious & vnchast woman. 1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1650) 23 Their usuall saying is, That whosoever is unchaste cannot reverence himselfe. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 321 To seek in marriage that fallacious Bride, Unclean, unchaste . View more context for this quotation 1780 W. Cowper Doves 29 If, fickle and unchaste,..Thou couldst become unkind at last, And scorn thy present lot. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 277 These unchaste girls are always impudent. b. Of life, habits, etc. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > specifically of conduct, etc. whorish1539 unchaste1541 brothellous1583 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 21 §8 Withoute plaine declaracion before of her unchaste lief. 1546 J. Bale (title) The Actes of Englysh votaryes, comprehendynge their vnchast practyses and examples by all ages. a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) i. i. 228 It is..No vnchaste action or dishonoured step That hath depriu'd me of your Grace and fauour. 1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxiii. 237 What a loss they are at sometimes..to satisfie an unchaste desire? 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. iv. 109 Even the unchastest Love borrows largely from this Source. 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1855) 1st Ser. ix. 145 You read of the victims of unchaste life hurried on the dark whirlwind for ever. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1382 |
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