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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being unchaste; incontinence; lewdness; unlawful indulgence of the sexual appetite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being unchaste; lewdness; incontinence.

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  • noun The quality or state of being unchaste; lewdness; incontinence.

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Examples

  • In our present lesson he treats chiefly of two vices: unchastity, which is a sin against oneself and destructive of the fruits of faith; and fraud in business, which is a sin against the neighbor and likewise destructive of faith and charity.

    Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Martin Luther 1514

  • Hence, one of the conditions the Jerusalem council made for the inclusion of the Gentiles in the Christian Church was that they should abstain from all forms of "unchastity"

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Afryea 2010

  • "The task of purity," as John Paul II observed, "is not only (and not so much) abstaining from 'unchastity' and from … 'lustful passions'."

    Catholic Exchange 2009

  • The demon of anger employs tactics resembling those of the demon of unchastity.

    June 23rd, 2008 m_francis 2008

  • There are readers (ex-readers) who have written me hate-mail telling me that they will not buy my books because I am a Christian, and because I doubt the wisdom of self-centeredness, unchastity, divorce, sterility, death as a way of life.

    MIND MELD: Is There Gender Imbalance in Genre Fiction Publishing? 2008

  • When Christian virgins such as Agnes and Cecilia asserted their personalities and their chosen vocations of being Brides of Christ, preferring death to unchastity or faithlessness, then the Roman world was shaken to its core. pp.

    Women in the Days of the Cathedrals elena maria vidal 2009

  • The connections of the young poet with aristocrats raise a special problem for biographers: in a lurid scandal that occurred some three years before Comus was performed, Lord Castlehaven, the brother of Lady Bridgewater, was found guilty of unchastity, sodomy, and of being a papist, and executed.

    Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday Kermode, Frank 2009

  • Jesus said, as recorded at Matthew 19: 9 according to the Revised Standard Version (RSV): “Whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery.”

    Brownback Supports Pace's "Homosexuality Is Immoral" Comment 2009

  • When Christian virgins such as Agnes and Cecilia asserted their personalities and their chosen vocations of being Brides of Christ, preferring death to unchastity or faithlessness, then the Roman world was shaken to its core. pp.

    Archive 2009-06-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • While it diminishes the heat of passion it increases licentiousness, and breeds a debauchery of mind far worse than bodily unchastity, because accompanied by a peculiar cold cruelty and a taste for artificial stimulants to “luxury.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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