unchastity
Example Sentences
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Jesus does seem to imply that divorce because of unchastity is allowable for women as well as men, representing more marital rights for women than had been previously taught.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2012
When Dodd's socialite wife, who has tried in vain to make him respectable, charges Tessa with unchastity, she collapses from a heart attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surely Bon could not have corrupted her to fatalism in twelve days, who not only had not tried to corrupt her to unchastity but not even to defy her father.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
The apostle does not here prohibit matrimony, but licentiousness, and unchastity outside the marriage state.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by John Nicholas Lenker
In the third act, after an interview of terrible irony and passion between Othello and Desdemona, in which he accuses her to her face of unchastity, and laughs at her indignant denial.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
