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unchaste

[ uhn-cheyst ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

not chaste; not virtuous; not pure:
an unchaste woman.
characterized by sexual suggestiveness, transgression, or excess; lascivious; bawdy:
an unchaste exhibition.

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; un- ¹, chaste

Ista (Venus) was the goddess of beauty, presiding over the loves of both men and animals, and was worshipped with unchaste rites.

This was promptly given up as regards women in the policy of discriminating between chaste and unchaste.

Wise men tell us that an olive planted by a virgin will thrive, but if by an unchaste woman it will wither.

Chastity cannot be predicated of those who believe marriages to be unchaste, n. 154.

In heaven it is impossible to look at the wife of another from an unchaste principle, 75.

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