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unchaste

[uhn-cheyst] / ʌnˈtʃeɪst /


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It cannot be that the water makes men effeminate and unchaste, as it is said to do; for the spring is of remarkable clearness and excellent in flavour.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Not once does an unchaste desire enter the heart of the hero, though he is brimming over with life and love.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

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

Surprised by Iémon, O'Iwa is driven out as unchaste.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

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




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