1382. Wyclif, Rom. xiii. 13. Not in couchis and vnchastitees, not in stryf and in enuye.
a. 1400. Pauline Ep. (Powell), 2 Cor. xii. 21. Penaunce or þeyre vnclennesse … and vnchastite þat þey han done.
1483. Cath. Angl., 60/1. Vn Chastite, incontinencia.
1550. Bale, Apol., 141 b. They haue in confessions, made kinges wiues and daughters to make vowes of vnchastyte vnto them.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 42. That she might liue chaste vestall Priest to Venus the queene of vnchastitie.
1639. Habington, Castara, II. (Arb.), 80. Against them who lay unchastity to the sex of Women.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., 1 Tim. v. 1–2. Carefully shunning all that savoureth of Immodesty or Unchastity.
a. 1763. W. King, Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819), 49. It might perhaps be too severe a censure to charge a woman with unchastity, who had only transgressed with one man.
1846. Wright, Ess. Mid. Ages, I. ii. 56. [In] the thirteenth century … unchastity was certainly not regarded as one of the greatest of sins.
1871. B. Taylor, Faust (1875), I. 297. Church-penance for unchastity was formerly common in England.
