Definitions
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- adverb   So as to 
cleanse . 
Etymologies
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cleansing + -ly
			
		
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Examples
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She got the chilled orange soup, which was cleansingly light and the ideal choice.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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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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