unchastity

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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

Wherever we find a visitation including laity and clerics alike, the clergy presented for unchastity are always numerous out of all proportion to the laity; sometimes more than ten times as numerous.

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.

His friends and guests spoke of the 'chaste lips' of Luther: 'He was,' says Mathesius, 'a foe to unchastity and loose talk.

From Life of Luther by Koestlin, Julius