haply

[ hap-lee ]

adverb

, Archaic.

1. perhaps; by chance.

haply

/ ˈhæplɪ /

adverb

1. sentence modifier an archaic word for perhaps

Word History and Origins

Origin of haply¹

First recorded in 1325–75, haply is from the Middle English word hapliche. See hap ¹, -ly

Example Sentences

He had no hopes of winning her to wife—haply no desire, since he was not a man of very great ambitions.

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Haply Marius would have taken them and departed, and at midnight they would have been free to go from Condillac.

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Haply her truant tresses mock Some coronal of shapelier block, To wit, the bounding billy-cock.

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But I shall have fled, how I know not; haply mandragora will lure my weary mind to rest.

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It was beyond his faculties to divine that her not forsaking of Edward might haply come to mean something disastrous to him.

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