## Etymology
From unchaste + -ly. Chaste comes from Old French chaste, from Latin castus ('pure, morally clean, cut off from'), from the Proto-Indo-European root *kes- ('to cut').

## AI Etymology
Unchastely comes from unchaste + -ly. Chaste comes from Old French chaste, from Latin castus ('pure, morally clean, cut off from'), from the Proto-Indo-European root *kes- ('to cut'). The historical chain includes Old English un- and Latin castus. The quoted older senses, "pure, morally clean, cut off from" and "to cut", supply the semantic anchors for unchastely. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word unchastely carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adv, "in an unchaste or immodest manner". Related English forms include unchaste, chaste, chastity, and unchastity. The result is a adv whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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