unchaste

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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

The celibacy of the clergy was only established with the very greatest difficulty, and when it was established, priests became unchaste.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock

If a man has a violent temper or if he is unchaste, get him and his children into the society to check the downward drift.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

He attests finally that sapphire preserves courage and keeps the members vigorous, while emerald, hung about one's neck, keeps away Saint John's evil and breaks when the wearer is unchaste.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

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)