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单词 unchastity
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unchastityn.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈtʃastᵻti/, U.S. /ˌənˈtʃæstədi/
Etymology: un- prefix1 6
Lack of chastity; sexual impurity; lasciviousness.
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incontinencec1384
unchastityc1384
adulteryc1405
bawdry1460
sensualities1477
incontinency1485
unchasteness1530
dishonesty1535
immorality?1566
inconstancy1581
inchastity1590
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. xiii. 13 Not in couchis and vnchastitees, not in stryf and in enuye.
a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 2 Cor. xii. 21 Penaunce of þeyre vnclennesse..and vnchastite Þat þey han done.
1483 Cath. Angl. 60/1 Vn Chastite, incontinencia.
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 141 b They haue in confessions, made kinges wiues and daughters to make vowes of vnchastyte vnto them.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 42 That she might liue chaste vestall Priest to Venus the queene of vnchastitie.
1634 W. Habington Castara ii. 73 Against them who lay unchastity to the sex of Women.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. 1 Tim. v. 1–2 Carefully shunning all that savoureth of Immodesty or Unchastity.
a1763 W. 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.
1846 T. Wright Ess. Middle Ages I. ii. 56 [In] the thirteenth century..unchastity was certainly not regarded as one of the greatest of sins.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. Notes 326 Church-penance for unchastity was also formerly common in England.
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