chastely

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From Middle English chasteliche, chastliche, chastely; equivalent to chaste +‎ -ly.

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chastely (comparative more chastely, superlative most chastely)

  1. In a chaste manner. (either specifically virginal, or in a modest, unsexy and unrisqué manner)
    • 1808, Allan Ramsay, The gentle shepher:
      Let lasses of a silly mind / Refuse what maist they're wanting / Since we for yielding were designed / We chastely should be granting.
    • 2004, Theo Clemens, Wim Janse, The Pastor Bonus:
      In holy orders no one is better loved than he who lives chastely, because chastity is the first principle for any cleric as well as the foundation of his life.
    • 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2021:
      Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).

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