Inchaste

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Unchaste. rare

    "Now you that were my father's concubines, Liquor to his inchaste and lustful fire, Have seen his honour shaken in his house, Which I possess in sight of all the world ;"

Example

More examples

"Now you that were my father's concubines, Liquor to his inchaste and lustful fire, Have seen his honour shaken in his house, Which I possess in sight of all the world ;"

Etymology

From in- + chaste. Doublet of incest.

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