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inchaste en · ADJ

Etymology

From in- + chaste. Doublet of incest.

Meanings

1. (rare) Unchaste.
   • 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 ; 1888, George Peele, The Works of George Peele, Volume 2, page 53:
   • They used to burn "witches." How soon til we are burning homosexuals, the inchaste, or those who dance on Sundays? 1996 January 31, Taka, “Democracy vs Individual Rights”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet), retrieved 16 May 2022:
   • The inchaste mass of humanity left over is outside moral judgment – and no simple opinion will fit the structure of defeat. 2016, Wynn Wheldon, Kicking the Bar:

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