unchaste

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A character in Plautus's comedy of The Merchant1182 complains of the difference in codes for unchaste husbands and unchaste wives.

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

The spirits of slain men, unchaste women, and women who died in childbed were most dreaded.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir

Nothing unchaste or indelicate about her appearance; just a sort of want of restraint; a freedom that amounted to an utter lack of responsibility to the ordinary claims and dictates of propriety.

From Hoosier Mosaics by Thompson, Maurice

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

If a man has a violent temper or if he is unchaste, get him and his children into the society to check the downward drift.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin