unchaste

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It is evidently an incorrect use of language to describe the unmarried women of a tribe as unchaste, unless there is a rule for them.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

And seeing the honour that was shown to the deceased, such women as were wanton and unchaste resolved to amend their lives.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George

For I tell you she hath so great a power of pleading that, being innocent, she will with difficulty be proved unchaste.'

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox

Quite passionless, but ever bounteous-minded even to waste; Much tenderness in talking; very urgent, yet no haste; And chastity—to laud it would have seem’d almost unchaste.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

There are expressions in Luther's writings—and in the Bible—that nowadays are considered unchaste, but are in themselves chaste and pure.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)