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chastly

chastly is the obsolete form of chastely.

Meaning of chastely

Adverb

chastely (comparative more chastely, superlative most chastely)

  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.1808, Allan Ramsay, The gentle shepher

Forms of chastly

comparativemore chastly
superlativemost chastly

Origin of chastly

From chast + -ly.

Questions about chastly

What is chastly the obsolete form of?
Chastly is the obsolete form of chastely.

Words near chastly in the dictionary

  1. chastizement
  2. chastizements
  3. chastizes
  4. chastizing
  5. Chastleton
  6. chastly
  7. chastness
  8. chasts
  9. chastushka
  10. chastushkas
  11. chastushki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chastly (page history and authors); chastely (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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