[f. UNCHASTE a. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being unchaste; impurity.
1530. Palsgr., 285/1. Unchastnesse, impudicité.
1548. Cranmer, Catech., 66. Wher yought doth both heare and see vnchastnes, there the infection of vncleannes spreadeth abrode.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, I. xviii. (1620), 27. It were no vnchastenesse in her to suffer the rape vnwillingly.
1653. Baxter, Worcester Petit. Def., 38. Would you permit any rogues that will, to have access to your wives, and solicit them to Unchasteness?
1828. E. Irving, Last Days, 239. If I were to come to speak of unchasteness.
