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  • All this proved painful and intolerable, so she took a by-path to the left called "Unchastity" where she found a whole vocabulary of speech more suited to her utterance.

    Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory

  • Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil; Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind…As long as you are proud you cannot know God.

    it’s not that far away 2003

  • Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil; Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind…As long as you are proud you cannot know God.

    just think about it a little « Ewan's Corner 2003

  • Unchastity has been held in these courts to disqualify a female witness, hath it not, my lord?

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • Unchastity and infidelity were as confused to him as to the Middle Ages, his only moral teacher.

    Howards End 1924

  • By these three kinds of purity the seventh mortal sin is overcome and cast out; that is, Unchastity.

    The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

  • _Unchastity of speech_ and fondness for obscene stories betray a condition of mind which does not exist in youth who are not addicted to this vice.

    Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897

  • Unchastity in either sex was not regarded as a vice, and on the birth of the king's daughter "the whole capital was given up to promiscuous debauchery."

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • Unchastity of speech and fondness for obscene stories betray a condition of mind which does not often exist in youth who are not addicted to this vice.

    Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

  • Unchastity, it has been well said, is union without love; and Alan would have none of it.

    The Woman Who Did Grant Allen 1873

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