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unchaste

[uhn-cheyst] / ʌnˈtʃeɪst /


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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

They suppose that the prophet had married a woman who was formerly unchaste.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

Such a man, by the rule of physiognomy is vain, unwise, unchaste, a detractor, unstable and unfaithful.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

On the other hand, each generation becomes more disinclined to work, and its vagrants multiply; each generation more prone to live by crime, more unchaste, and more quick to desert their conjugal partners and children.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

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




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