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Unerringly vs Happily - What's the difference?

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Unerringly is a related term of happily.


As adverbs the difference between unerringly and happily

is that unerringly is without making a mistake, perfectly, directly while happily is (archaic) by chance; perhaps.

unerringly

English

Adverb

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  • Without making a mistake, perfectly, directly
    • His sense of direction leads us unerringly every time.
  • * {{quote-news
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    happily

    English

    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.