Chastely

adv. [f. CHASTE a. + -LY².]

  1.  In a chaste manner; purely, continently.

1340.  Ayenb., 225. He ssel him loki chastliche ase longe ase he is ine þe stat of wodewehod.

c. 1450.  Crt. of Love, 1117. Chastely to keepe us out of loves grace.

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 100. Yf y^e lyue here religyously & chastly in soule & body.

1607.  Shaks., Cor., V. ii. 27. Though it were as vertuous to lye, as to liue chastly.

1796.  Burke, Regic. Peace, iv. (R.). It must keep alive some part of that fire of jealousy eternally and chastely burning, or it cannot be the British constitution.

1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., I. lxxxiii. Her [Philosophy’s] chastely-awful eyes.

1885.  Law Times Rep., LIII. 306/1. An implied condition that the parties should live chastely.

  2.  In chaste style or taste (see CHASTE a. 8).

1815.  Scribbleomania, 160. His prose chastely flowing.

1870.  Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1879), II. 886. Richly and chastely colored glass.

1879.  D. J. Hill, Bryant, 171. The style, always pure, clear, and forcible, and often chastely elegant.