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unchaste
[
uhn-
cheyst
]
Origin
un·chaste
/
ʌnˈtʃeɪst
/
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[
uhn-
cheyst
]
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adjective
1.
not
chaste
;
not virtuous; not pure:
an unchaste woman.
2.
characterized by sexual suggestiveness, transgression, or excess; lascivious; bawdy:
an unchaste exhibition.
Origin:
1350–1400;
Middle English;
see
un-
1
,
chaste
Related forms
un·chaste·ly,
adverb
un·chaste·ness,
un·chas·ti·ty
/
ʌnˈtʃæs
tɪ
ti
/
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[
uhn-
chas
-ti-tee
]
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,
noun
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Word Origin & History
unchaste
1382, from
un-
(1) "not" +
chaste
.
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