chancefully
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English chaunsfullyche, equivalent to chanceful + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]chancefully (comparative more chancefully, superlative most chancefully)
- by chance or coincidence
- 1895, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills, page 145:
- Would it not be wiser, even more manly, for him twice her years — to leave her alone with her secret, and so pass out of her innocent young life as chancefully as he had entered it?