haply
perhaps; by chance.
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How to use haply in a sentence
He had no hopes of winning her to wife—haply no desire, since he was not a man of very great ambitions.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatinihaply Marius would have taken them and departed, and at midnight they would have been free to go from Condillac.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatinihaply her truant tresses mock Some coronal of shapelier block, To wit, the bounding billy-cock.
The Book of Humorous Verse | VariousBut I shall have fled, how I know not; haply mandragora will lure my weary mind to rest.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton MackenzieIt was beyond his faculties to divine that her not forsaking of Edward might haply come to mean something disastrous to him.
Rhoda Fleming, Complete | George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for haply
/ (ˈhæplɪ) /
(sentence modifier) an archaic word for perhaps
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