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Definition of unchaste in English: unchasteadjectiveʌnˈtʃeɪstˌənˈtʃeɪst Relating to or engaging in sexual activity, especially of an illicit or extramarital nature. Example sentencesExamples - That is not, however, to say there was anything unchristian, unchaste, or subversive to the Faith.
- Thus, the chaste woman was sealed, impermeable; the unchaste woman was porous, incontinent.
- Their love of sumptuous clothes is simultaneously the inspiration for and the evidence of their ‘wanton, lewd, and unchaste behavior’.
- William's downfall, in The Zeal of Thy House, comes about partly because of his unchaste, rowdy, and drunken way of life.
- Sita came, and Valmiki said, ‘They are all saying you are unchaste.’
- Limits placed on the movement of Muslim women, the jobs they can hold and their interactions with men are all rooted in fears of unchaste behavior.
- Eva is also a mythic character who is unchaste and unwilling to submit to anyone or any God, in opposition to her Christian namesake.
- The girl's father was so ashamed that he buried his daughter alive for her unchaste behavior, and Phoebus could not save her from the burial or revive her lifeless body.
- The women, becoming unchaste, will freely wander from one man to the next.
- She offers him the choice: he can have her old and ugly and faithful or young, beautiful, and possibly unchaste.
- PC Clegg said the woman's husband left her on account of her drinking habits and then she commenced to lead an unchaste life.
- In burghs throughout the country ‘black Genevan ministers and kirk sessions had it in for the ungodly and unchaste, and at one palace or another Buchanan beat learning into young King James.
- This is proven when the hag offers her husband the choice: he can have her old and ugly and faithful or young, beautiful, and possible unchaste.
- This is Athens, the city that gave man marriage ‘by which the unchaste nature of the female was at last governed.’
- In one polemic after another Islamist writers contrast the virtuous Muslim woman with her Western or Westernized counterpart - naked, unchaste, and corrupt, a potent source of fitna or strife.
- Under Hardin, a woman who had been unchaste, but had reformed herself could become ‘an innocent woman in the eyes of the law.’
- Mary goes off to a lonely place to give birth to the child, she brings the child back, her family accuses her of unchastity, the child speaks out of his cradle to assure everybody that Mary is not unchaste.
- Iago has already convinced him that Desdemona is unchaste.
- I must love all men, and never quarrel, nor be drunk, nor be unchaste, nor steal, nor tell a lie, nor be discontent with my condition.
- Denouncing unchaste women, Hamlet madly advises Ophelia to become a celibate nun.
Synonyms unethical, bad, morally wrong, wrongful, wicked, evil, unprincipled, unscrupulous, dishonourable, dishonest, unconscionable, iniquitous, disreputable, fraudulent, corrupt, depraved, vile, villainous, nefarious, base, unfair, underhand, devious
Derivatives adverbʌnˈtʃeɪstliˌənˈtʃeɪs(t)li There are people within the Catholic Church who might argue that those who label themselves ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian’ aren't necessarily living unchastely. Example sentencesExamples - The Duke's power over Sylvia and lack of concern for her wishes means that she must live unhappily or behave unchastely.
- So the King soon knew what Ulfeldt described as glaringly bad in the letter from Dover: that our children in Rome are shouting unchastely for money.
- They ‘live in Concubinage - swopping their Wivesas Cattle, and living in a State of Nature, more irregularly and unchastely than the Indians,’ wrote an observer in the South nearly 200 years ago.
- Those who looked chastely upon women heard the song as something harmonious and sweet; but those who looked unchastely upon women heard it as inharmonious and sad.
nounʌnˈtʃastɪtiˌənˈtʃæstədi So I will have to modify my previous position: the problem is a culture of unchastity, whether hetero or homosexual. Example sentencesExamples - The topics addressed are swearing, falling from God, an exhortation against the fear of death, obedience to earthly rulers, adultery and unchastity, and contention and brawling.
- More specifically, chapter one examines how a new language of gallantry competed with older Christian perceptions of adultery as a sinful unchastity requiring public policing.
- Nay, but they say that the precious metals foster all manner of vice, such as the seduction of women, adultery, and unchastity, in short, crimes of violence against the person.
- He immediately points out that sins against this commandment include not helping one's neighbor in preventing unchastity.
Definition of unchaste in US English: unchasteadjectiveˌənˈCHāstˌənˈtʃeɪst Relating to or engaging in sexual activity, especially of an illicit or extramarital nature. Example sentencesExamples - Sita came, and Valmiki said, ‘They are all saying you are unchaste.’
- This is Athens, the city that gave man marriage ‘by which the unchaste nature of the female was at last governed.’
- I must love all men, and never quarrel, nor be drunk, nor be unchaste, nor steal, nor tell a lie, nor be discontent with my condition.
- That is not, however, to say there was anything unchristian, unchaste, or subversive to the Faith.
- She offers him the choice: he can have her old and ugly and faithful or young, beautiful, and possibly unchaste.
- In burghs throughout the country ‘black Genevan ministers and kirk sessions had it in for the ungodly and unchaste, and at one palace or another Buchanan beat learning into young King James.
- Eva is also a mythic character who is unchaste and unwilling to submit to anyone or any God, in opposition to her Christian namesake.
- Denouncing unchaste women, Hamlet madly advises Ophelia to become a celibate nun.
- Thus, the chaste woman was sealed, impermeable; the unchaste woman was porous, incontinent.
- In one polemic after another Islamist writers contrast the virtuous Muslim woman with her Western or Westernized counterpart - naked, unchaste, and corrupt, a potent source of fitna or strife.
- Mary goes off to a lonely place to give birth to the child, she brings the child back, her family accuses her of unchastity, the child speaks out of his cradle to assure everybody that Mary is not unchaste.
- William's downfall, in The Zeal of Thy House, comes about partly because of his unchaste, rowdy, and drunken way of life.
- Limits placed on the movement of Muslim women, the jobs they can hold and their interactions with men are all rooted in fears of unchaste behavior.
- Under Hardin, a woman who had been unchaste, but had reformed herself could become ‘an innocent woman in the eyes of the law.’
- The girl's father was so ashamed that he buried his daughter alive for her unchaste behavior, and Phoebus could not save her from the burial or revive her lifeless body.
- This is proven when the hag offers her husband the choice: he can have her old and ugly and faithful or young, beautiful, and possible unchaste.
- The women, becoming unchaste, will freely wander from one man to the next.
- Their love of sumptuous clothes is simultaneously the inspiration for and the evidence of their ‘wanton, lewd, and unchaste behavior’.
- Iago has already convinced him that Desdemona is unchaste.
- PC Clegg said the woman's husband left her on account of her drinking habits and then she commenced to lead an unchaste life.
Synonyms unethical, bad, morally wrong, wrongful, wicked, evil, unprincipled, unscrupulous, dishonourable, dishonest, unconscionable, iniquitous, disreputable, fraudulent, corrupt, depraved, vile, villainous, nefarious, base, unfair, underhand, devious |