Want of continence or self-restraint; inability to contain or retain. With reference to the bodily appetites, esp. the sexual passion: Unchastity.

Lack of chastity; sexual impurity; lasciviousness.

In extended use: any illicit sexual intercourse or activity; lust, debauchery, fornication.

gen. Unchastity, fornication. Obsolete.

In plural. Physical and sensual pleasures and pursuits, esp. lustful inclinations. rare.

= incontinence, n. 1.

The quality or state of being unchaste; impurity.

Unchastity, lewdness. Obsolete.

Immoral quality, character, or conduct; violation of moral law; wickedness, viciousness. (Now often used specifically of sexual impurity.)

Used for incontinency, n. Obsolete.

Want of chastity; unchastity.