Meanings
adverbchancefully (comparative more chancefully, superlative most chancefully)
comparative more chancefully · superlative most chancefully
- by chance or coincidence
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?
1895, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills, page 145
Origin
- Middle Englishchaunsfullyche
- Englishchancefully
From Middle English chaunsfullyche, equivalent to chanceful + -ly.
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