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haply

[ hap-lee ]

adverb

, Archaic.
  1. perhaps; by chance.


haply

/ ˈhæplɪ /

adverb

  1. sentence modifier an archaic word for perhaps
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of haply1

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

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

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

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

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

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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