lose your reputation

lose your reputation
   obsolete
   (of a woman)
   to be known as promiscuous
   She may also, in the same way, lose her virtue:
    We cannot go there. The night watchman will see us. You will lose your reputation. (Bradbury, 1976)
   Every woman who yields to her passions and loses her virtue is a prostitute. (Mayhew, 1862)

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