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chancely en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English chauncely, chaunselich, equivalent to chance + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) By chance.
    • But by the grace of Almighty Creator I found chancely such a wife in the wilderness, […] 1894, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 103, page 248: