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unchastity

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un⋅chaste

  [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; ME; see un- 1 , chaste

Related forms:
un⋅chaste⋅ly, adverb
un⋅chaste⋅ness, un⋅chas⋅ti⋅ty  [uhn-chas-ti-tee] , noun
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un·chaste   (ŭn-chāst')   
adj.   un·chast·er, un·chast·est
Not chaste or modest.
un·chaste'ly adv., un·chas'ti·ty (-chās'tĭ-tē) n.
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Word Origin & History

unchaste 
1382, from un- (1) "not" + chaste.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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