unchaste

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A character in Plautus's comedy of The Merchant1182 complains of the difference in codes for unchaste husbands and unchaste wives.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

Choose, then, two equal judges of the field: Next morning shall decide the doubtful strife, Condemn the unchaste, or quit the virtuous wife.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir

It is evidently an incorrect use of language to describe the unmarried women of a tribe as unchaste, unless there is a rule for them.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

Canto V. Stepping down from this circle to a lower one, Dante and Virgil reach the second circle of the Inferno, where all who lived unchaste lives are duly punished.

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

Nothing unchaste or indelicate about her appearance; just a sort of want of restraint; a freedom that amounted to an utter lack of responsibility to the ordinary claims and dictates of propriety.

From Hoosier Mosaics by Thompson, Maurice