HAPPILY

adv.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
adv.

By chance; peradventure; haply. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

2.
adv.

By good fortune; fortunately; luckily. Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. Waller.

3.
adv.

In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife.

4.
adv.

With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.


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