unˈchastely, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an unchaste manner; impurely.
| c 1340 Hampole Prose Tr. 6 A ȝonge mane,..vn-chastely and delycyousely lyfande and full of many synnys. 1340–70 Alisaunder 36 Hue loued so lecherie & lustes of synne, Þat her chylder hue chase unchastly to haue. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John iv. 23 One that had naughtely & vnchastely misused her body with diuerse. a 1586 Sidney Arcadia ii. xv. (1912) 245 She (unchastly attempting his wonted fancies) found..a bitter refusall. 1634 Habington Castara i. (Arb.) 36 Who while he ey'd, Vnchastely, such a beauty,..Turn'd marble. 1690 C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 316 Dinah,..whom..he had unjustly as well as unchastly possessed. |