unchaste

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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

There are expressions in Luther's writings—and in the Bible—that nowadays are considered unchaste, but are in themselves chaste and pure.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

It cannot be that the water makes men effeminate and unchaste, as it is said to do; for the spring is of remarkable clearness and excellent in flavour.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Woe to him who knows it, the chaste in wish and the unchaste in act, the rogue who values honour, the poltroon who would fain be brave!

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

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