adverb
- perhaps; by chance
Usage: archaic; literary
Examples
- Haply you think too much of so much pains.
- If haply I might find some trace of him.
- Haply the gods will grant us better fortune.
- She looked back, haply hoping to see him once more.
- Haply this letter will reach you in time.
- The traveler stopped, haply to rest his weary feet.