chastely
English
Etymology
Adverb
chastely (comparative more chastely, superlative most chastely)
- In a chaste manner. (either specifically virginal, or in a modest, unsexy and unrisque 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]:
- 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).
- 1808 Allan Ramsay - The gentle shepher
Translations
in a chaste manner
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