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

S: O sister of Haroun! your father was not a bad man, nor, was your mother an unchaste woman.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

He attests finally that sapphire preserves courage and keeps the members vigorous, while emerald, hung about one's neck, keeps away Saint John's evil and breaks when the wearer is unchaste.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

Where there are no laws for the conduct of unmarried women they are not unchaste.

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

Canto V. Stepping down from this circle to a lower one, Dante and Virgil reach the second circle of the Inferno, where all who lived unchaste lives are duly punished.

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)