Happily vs Beggarly - What's the difference?
happily | beggarly |
(archaic) By chance; perhaps.
*, II.12:
By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
* 1808 , Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe , Minerva Press for Lane and Newman, page 311:
With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
* Jeremy Taylor
(by extension) inadequate or meagre.
As adverbs the difference between happily and beggarly
is that happily is (archaic) by chance; perhaps while beggarly is in an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.As an adjective beggarly is
in the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.happily
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?
- And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave to much as to hope for.
beggarly
English
Adjective
(er)- beggarly fellow
- beggarly rags
- Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation.
