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inchaste

inchaste adjective: unchaste.

Adjective

inchaste (comparative more inchaste, superlative most inchaste)

  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

Forms of inchaste

comparativemore inchaste
superlativemost inchaste

Origin of inchaste

From in- + chaste. Doublet of incest.

Questions about inchaste

What does inchaste mean?
Inchaste means unchaste.
What part of speech is inchaste?
Inchaste is an adjective.

Words near inchaste in the dictionary

  1. incharity
  2. inchase
  3. inchased
  4. inchases
  5. inchasing
  6. inchaste
  7. inchastities
  8. inchastity
  9. inchaunt
  10. inchaunts
  11. Inchbald

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