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  • adverb So as to cleanse.

Etymologies

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cleansing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • She got the chilled orange soup, which was cleansingly light and the ideal choice.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • Also: "One could quibble that gays finally having their own Scary Movie might be as dubious a distinction, as say, oh, the first gay western, but is so rabidly forthright in its splattering of orifice-indiscriminate man-juices that it reaches a level of almost cleansingly ribald sadism."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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