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
Among the Chinese there exist seven reasons for divorce: sterility, unchastity, negligence toward parents-in-law, talkativeness, desertion, ill-temper and chronic disease.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
Keep me from all intemperance and unchastity, and turn from me shameless thoughts.
From Morning and Evening Prayers for All Days of the Week Together With Confessional, Communion, and Other Prayers and Hymns for Mornings and Evenings, and Other Occasions by John Habermann
