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chastely

adv
/ˈt͡ʃeɪst.li/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from chasteliche

Definitions

  1. In a chaste manner. (either specifically virginal, or in a modest, unsexy and unrisqué…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at chastely. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01chastely02modest03boasting04individual05contrasted06marked07mark08objective09purely

A definitional loop anchored at chastely. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at chastely

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA