haply Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb by accident
    by luck; by chance.
    • betrayed by a word haply overheard

WordNet


Hap"ly adverb
Definitions
  1. By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be.
    Lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. Acts v. 39.

Webster 1913