Middle English Dictionary Entry
unchastitẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | unchastitẹ̄ n. |
| Etymology | From chastitẹ̄ n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Sexual impurity; also, an unchaste act.
Associated quotations
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Rom.13.13 : Wandre we honestly…not in couchis and vnchastitees, not in stryf and in enuye.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Cor.12.21 : I weyle manye of hem that bifore synneden and diden not penaunce of the vnclennesse and fornycacioun and vnchastite.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Gal.5.19 : The workis of the fleisch…ben fornycacioun, vnclennesse, vnchastite, leccherie, seruynge of ydols, [etc.].
- a1450 Aelred Inst.(2) (Bod 423)11/416 : If thou praye with teres of contricion whan thou art traueiled with vnchastite, trust right wel that an aungel keper of thy chastite shal be ful nye.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)60 : Vn Chastite: incontinencia, inpudica.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)43/37 : For euermore he hath dured in oure seruese of vnchastites and in all other vices that are vsid with that vice.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)191/26 : For [is it] not, trowe ye, lesse synne to wymmen in syche tymes for to diȝte here lynnen or tese here wolle þen to do deedes of vnchastite as detracions or of stryuyngis?