AskDefine | Define chastely

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chastely adv : in a chaste and virtuous manner; "she lived chastely" [syn: virtuously]

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Adverb

  1. In a chaste manner

Quotations

  • 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.
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