chastelyadv.
/ˈtʃeɪstli/ 1. In a chaste manner; purely, continently.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [adverb]
chastely1340
continently1554
temperatelya1625
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 225 He ssel him loki chastliche ase longe ase he is ine þe stat of wodewehod.
c1450 Crt. of Love 1117 Chastely to keepe us out of loves grace.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. GGiiiiv Yf thou lyue here religiously and chastly, in soule and body.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. ii. 29 Though it were as vertuous to lye, as to liue chastly . View more context for this quotation
a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 110 That fire of jealousy eternally and chastly burning.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxxiii. 49 Her [sc. Philosophy's] chastely-awful eyes.
1885 Law Times Rep. 53 306/1 An implied condition that the parties should live chastely.
2. In chaste style or taste (see chaste adj. 8).
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adverb] > qualities generally
strongly1642
artistly1664
correctlya1704
meretriciously1755
boldly1765
chastely1815
literally1816
airily1823
stylistically1889
decadently1892
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adverb]
aefauldlyOE
plainlyc1385
simply?c1400
nakedlya1535
simple1550
inornatelya1568
spruce?1605
dryly1635
chastely1815
unadornedly1820
inelaborately1846
in words of one syllable1922
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 160 His prose chastely flowing.
1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 13 Nov. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vii. 417 Richly and chastely colored glass.
1879 D. J. Hill Bryant 171 The style, always pure, clear, and forcible, and often chastely elegant.
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