chastely

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈt͡ʃeɪst.li/

Definition of chastely

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a chaste manner. (either specifically virginal, or in a modest, unsexy and unrisqué manner)
    “Let lasses of a silly mind / Refuse what maist they're wanting / Since we for yielding were designed / We chastely should be granting.”
    “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.”
    “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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Etymology

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

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