unchastity

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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 first century of the life of the Quakers here is recorded in the minutes of Oblong Meeting as one long struggle of Quaker discipline against unchastity.

From Quaker Hill A Sociological Study by Wilson, Warren H. (Warren Hugh)

And since we have been faithfully devoted to your honor all our lives long at home and abroad, grant us deliverance from this disgrace of unchastity, that we may lead honorable lives among you.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob