unchastity
Example Sentences
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Jesus does seem to imply that divorce because of unchastity is allowable for women as well as men, representing more marital rights for women than had been previously taught.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2012
When Dodd's socialite wife, who has tried in vain to make him respectable, charges Tessa with unchastity, she collapses from a heart attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surely Bon could not have corrupted her to fatalism in twelve days, who not only had not tried to corrupt her to unchastity but not even to defy her father.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
They also accused St. Athanasius of murder and unchastity, both of which charges he most triumphantly repelled.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Virtue and vice, chastity and unchastity, are changeable and perishable; “they all shall wax old as doth a garment:” but the underlying individual life is imperishable and intangible.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
