Power of birth and begetting have gone; the universal unchastity causes the population to diminish: their glory flieth away like a bird.
The generation to which Hosea belonged practised a periodical unchastity under the alleged sanctions of nature and religion.
It must not; however, be inferred from this that infanticide increases in direct proportion to theunchastity of a nation.
Sins of unchastityprobably occupy a larger place than any others in its enactments.
Obscene conversations, indecent dances and frank unchastity on the part of girls and women were the attendant evils of these loose morals.
Everywhere in Oceanica marriage is unstable, and with few exceptions unchastity prevails.
As a consequence vast numbers grow up with the idea that unchastityis a gallant adventure, or, at worst, only a peccadillo.
Surely chastity is happy, healthy sexual intercourse between a man and a woman who love one another; and unchastity is sexual intercourse between those who do not love one another.
Unchastity in either sex was not regarded as a vice, and on the birth of the king's daughter "the whole capital was given up to promiscuous debauchery.
He adds that this is not deemed a hardship there, where divorce and unchastityare so general.
XXL, 360), all along the east coast of Africa no shame attaches to unchastity before marriage.
There is a special aspect of the problem of pre-marital chastity of men that young women should understand, and that is their indirect responsibility for the unchastity of many men.
The grave responsibility of young men whose unchastity is connected with illegitimacy or with the organized social evil should be made a strong point in appeals for pre-marital abstinence.
However sure a young woman may feel of her own power of self-control, she should not consider lightly her possible part in a chain of events which may lead men to unchastity with other women.
Others of the horrified ones will remain complacent because they believe that unchastity is caused by "innate depravity" of men.
Perhaps Hammurabi also had it in mind, for unchastity would be specially revolting in a vestal virgin.
First Josephus explains the crime not as mere unchastity but as 'opening a tavern'.
The method by which a family purifies itself of the unchastity of a daughter is horrible enough.
Laws forbidding unchastity and vice were explicit and severe.
Every impartial investigator who has formed his opinion from the actual evidence knows that the unchastity of the negro slave of America was an inheritance from Africa.
But I do not mean to say that this parental misbehavior was as general as the unchastity mentioned.
It is believed that there was included in its teachings disapproval of prenuptial unchastity by men.
Prostitution, known as the "social evil," is promiscuous unchastity for gain.
You cherish her and reap unchastity For gratitude--unchastity against Our very son who was betrothed to her.
Cicero delivered by his eloquence one of these ladies from a charge involving her life and honour; but in the reign of Domitian three vestals were convicted of unchastity and put to death.
Unchastity the Dominant Evil--Infamy of a Double Standard of Virtue 60.
By the time the Middle Ages had passed away, and the masses had emerged into the comparatively brilliant light of the Renaissance, sacerdotal unchastity had grown into an enormous evil.
Dispensation to unchastity in her ministers had become a prominent feature among those various indulgences against which the consciences of the early Reformers rose in wrath.
The thought is: Unchastity does not come within the limits of Christian liberty and privilege, nor does God treat the offender with indulgence and impunity.
The apostle does not here prohibit matrimony, but licentiousness, and unchastity outside the marriage state.
And some have been even such vulgar teachers as to consider no unchastity evil except adultery, and to accept it as a normal function, like eating and drinking.
This applies to those who gloss their unchastity over, as if it were but a trivial sin.
For example, if I have faith and am born of God, I will not pollute myself with unchastity and fornication, I will not bring disgrace upon another's spouse or child.
Among these idle chatterers and misleading teachers the sluggards and drones should beware of being classified, who, with better light than the heathen, know full well that covetousness and unchastity are sin.
While there is a conjugal duty to be required by necessity, it is for the very purpose of avoiding unchastity and uncleanness.
Unchastity in a man is a crime, but in a woman is permissible.
The condemnation of works trading on unchastity must emanate from men of whose freedom from prejudice and freedom of mind, intelligence and independence, no one entertains a doubt.
Moreover, that Kalingasena is a faithful wife, of good family; and her reproach of unchastity has arisen from the influence of her actions in a former birth.
While the merchant's daughter was going through this train of reflection, her heart, afflicted by the misfortune of her unchastity having been discovered, in its agony, broke.
Thou shalt obtain eighty thousand wives, and thou shalt come to learn the unchastity of them all in the presence of men.
Equally wrong is the attempt made by others to identify this repentant and forgiven sinner with Mary Magdalene, no period of whose life was marked by the sin of unchastity so far as the scriptures aver.
We are dealing with the scriptural record as a history, and nothing said therein warrants the really repellent though common imputation of unchastity to the devoted soul of Mary Magdalene.
And if all robbery, usury, unchastity and all the other sins were cast upon one great heap, this sin would overtop it--even at the time and place of seeming greatest silliness.
Yet unchastity was one of the abuses assailed in the very writing which he here reprints, which urges that “Rome ought to be the model and example of all other cities.
In order to buy these specially de-natured alcohols it is necessary, of course, to obtain a permit first from your Collector of Internal Revenue, a simple permit to use de-natured alcohol will not suffice.
Of the eighty councils held in France during the eleventh century, every one denounced the lawlessness of the laity and the unchastity and simony of the clergy.
Lanfranc of Canterbury ably seconded the reformatory exertions of the Pope and set himself firmly against the sale of benefices and the unchastity of the clergy.
