It was still more in vain to remind her that such a concession must entail the dishonour that man fears above all perils; would brand me with that indelible stain of abject personal cowardice which for ever degrades and ruins not only the fame but the nature of manhood, as the stain of wilful unchastity debases and ruins woman.

The characteristic vices of the Pagan world were unchastity and fondness for the pleasures of the table.

But wherefore do you use my daughter thus? Can you accuse her of unchastity, of loose Demeanour, disobedience, or disloyalty?

Yet is he to be understood as intimating, in this phase of his argument, that unchastity, or dishonesty, or any other vice than falsehood, is to be preferred, in practice, over a stunning blow or a fatal bullet against a would-be murderer?

"Some moralists," says the average young man of the world, "in their extreme regard for personal purity, will not admit that any act of unchastity is necessary, even to protect one's health, or as an act of love.

Once more: English sentiment is such that the mere suspicion of incontinence on the part of a woman is enough to blight her life; but there are peoples whose sentiments entail no such effect, and, in some cases, a reverse effect is produced: "Unchastity is, with the Wetyaks, a virtue."

What is dominant in the minds always finds egress when a favorable opportunity is presented, and the very thought of unchastity as something to be avoided, leads to its contemplation, or its creation in the form of temptation.

Unchastity is very rare, and the infidelity of a wife is almost unknown.

His wife Julia was not recalled from the banishment to which for unchastity her father Augustus had condemned her; nay, he even put her under lock and key till wretchedness and starvation caused her death.

Messalina adopted this same method with numerous other men, and committed adultery feigning that Claudius knew what was taking place and countenanced her unchastity.

ULYSSES, companions of, changed into hogs, 521. UNCHASTITY, difference between, and what is not chaste, 139.

Unchastity is entirely opposed to chastity, 139.

There is a conjugial love which is not chaste, and yet is not unchastity, 139.

The love opposite to conjugial love is essential unchastity, 139.

If the renunciations of whoredoms be not made from a principle of religion, unchastity lies inwardly concealed like corrupt matter in a wound only outwardly healed, 149.

Occupied with it, man forgets all anger, unchastity, pride, and other vices.

Chastity and unchastity.

Crees: Unchastity.

Kukis: Unchastity.

Madagascar: Unchastity.

Mishmees: Unchastity.

Navajos: Unchastity; Treatment of women; Courtship.

Pueblos: Girls propose; Unchastity.

Thibet: Unchastity; Woman's wretched lot.

Unchastity: (See Chastity).