Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not chaste.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not chaste; not continent; libidinous; lewd.
- Not marked by good taste.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not chaste; not continent; lewd.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
chaste ; notcontinent ;libidinous ;lewd .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not chaste
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Examples
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She bore the signs of what she’d done last night as sure as if she wore the word unchaste blazoned across her chest.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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She bore the signs of what she’d done last night as sure as if she wore the word unchaste blazoned across her chest.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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She bore the signs of what she’d done last night as sure as if she wore the word unchaste blazoned across her chest.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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It is on this account that this class of woman are called unchaste women by voluptuaries.
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It is on this account that this class of woman are called unchaste women by voluptuaries.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From The Sanscrit In Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks Vatsyayana 1855
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The souls of such separate themselves from the unlimited love for the sex, and devote themselves to one, with whom they look for an everlasting and eternal union and its increasing blessednesses, as the cherishers of the hope which continually recreates their mind; but it is quite otherwise with the unchaste, that is, with those who do not think religiously of marriages and their holiness.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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The angels feel a chill all over the body at the idea of unchaste or extra-conjugial love; and on the other hand, they feel a genial warmth throughout the body arising from chaste or conjugial love.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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I can't imagine that that kind of unchaste sits well with HER, either.
Why do I do this to myself? LuLu 2008
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(Note the discrimination against the "unchaste" woman in the statutory law; whether this scruple was closely adhered to by the local courts in bastardy actions is uncertain, but as noted, there was no reference to the previous character of the mother in any of the southern Avalon cases herein.)
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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The effort by the defendant to present Ellen as an "unchaste" woman would not have disproved Catharine's suit, as the action was for compensation for loss of household services only; however, he may have been hoping to lower the valuation for Ellen as "damaged goods."
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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