单词 | unchastity |
释义 | unchastityn. Lack of chastity; sexual impurity; lasciviousness. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1384 |
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