haply
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of haply
First recorded in 1325–75, haply is from the Middle English word hapliche. See hap 1, -ly
Example Sentences
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As for me, when I feel gloomy in ways that recall the first eight lines, haply I think on Shakespeare, and feel better.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2013
I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven.
From Time Magazine Archive
All too little may we tell, Friends who like each other well, What might haply, if we might, Hid us read our lives aright.
From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon
She was of such a quality and an air that you might believe the very winds would divide to give her passage, afraid to touch and haply soil so rare a thing.
From The Happy Warrior by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
No. 5 is translated "O that," "peradventure," "would God that," "if," "if haply," "though," and only once "I pray thee."
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas
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