chancefully

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English chaunsfullyche, equivalent to chanceful +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

chancefully (comparative more chancefully, superlative most chancefully)

  1. by chance or coincidence
    • 1895, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills, page 145:
      Would it not be wiser, even more manly, for him twice her years — to leave her alone with her secret, and so pass out of her innocent young life as chancefully as he had entered it?
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