unchaste

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Surprised by Iémon, O'Iwa is driven out as unchaste.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

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)

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

No one who desires to become holier and better imagines that he does so by becoming more malevolent, or more untruthful, or more unchaste.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Therefore, where polyandry is in the mores, women who comply with it are not unchaste.

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