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Definition of Haply
1. Adverb. By accident. "Betrayed by a word haply overheard"
Definition of Haply
1. adv. By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be.
Definition of Haply
1. Adverb. by accident or luck ¹
2. Adverb. perhaps ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Haply
1. by chance [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haply
Literary usage of Haply
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"haply my Sires have left their shed, Add. to Edinburgh. ... Now, haply down yon
gay green shaw, She wanders by yon spreading tree ; S. O wat ye whas in t Or ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Without one feeling which might haply clug, His fierce propensities to viola-tion !
'Twas his, indeed, to " bite and play the dog," And tear, ..."
3. The Acts: An Exposition by Charles Rosenbury Erdman (1919)
"... it will be overthrown: 39 but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow
them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God. ..."
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