unchaste

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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)

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

But if coarse in speech he was pure in life, and neither the rancor of political hate nor the research of unsparing biographers ever charged him with an unchaste act.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring

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

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