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unchaste

[uhn-cheyst] / ʌnˈtʃeɪst /


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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

Foul, unchaste and superfluous words have no place therein, nor have any inappropriate elements, elements void of significance and without virtue and life.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas

He goes on to urge that this ritual kiss should be neither unchaste nor without real feeling.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles

But if coarse in speech he was pure in life, and neither the rancor of political hate nor the research of unsparing biographers ever charged him with an unchaste act.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring

It is evidently an incorrect use of language to describe the unmarried women of a tribe as unchaste, unless there is a rule for them.

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




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