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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unchastité, n. Also: unchastitee, -tie, unchaistyte. [ME and e.m.E. vnchastitee (Wyclif), vnchastite (a1400), vnchastitie (1599); Chastité n.] Lack of chastity, sexual impurity. Also, an instance of this. — c1520-c1535 Nisbet Prol. Rom. 328/2.
As thouth fleische wer only that quhilk pertenit to vnchaistyte, ande the spret that quhilk inwartly pertenit to the hart c1520-c1535 Nisbet 2 Cor. xii 21.
I bewaile mony of thame that … did nocht pennance on the vnclennes, and fornicatioun, and vnchastitee, that thai haue done 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 90.
Unchastitie — c1520-c1535 Nisbet Rom. xiii 13.
As in day gang we honestlie, nocht in superflue feastis and drunkinnessis, nocht in beddis and vnchastiteis
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