Adverb

(en adverb)

(archaic) By chance; perhaps.

*, II.12:

And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?

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:

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.

With good will; in all happiness; willingly.

Adverb

(en adverb)

Merrily.

Showily.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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