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Definition of Fortuitously
1. Adverb. By good fortune. "Fortunately the weather was good"
Partainyms: Fortuitous, Fortunate, Lucky
Antonyms: Unfortunately, Unluckily
Definition of Fortuitously
1. Adverb. In a fortuitous manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fortuitously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortuitously
Literary usage of Fortuitously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"Our guess is that if you use fortuitous to mean “happening by a lucky chance,”
you have nothing to worry about. fortuitously The adverb fortuitously has ..."
2. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"Expected value of performance fortuitously destroyed; Coronation cases. A step
still further than that referred to in the previous two sections has been ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... we confidently conclude, That the first original of all things was neither
stupid and senseless matter fortuitously moved, nor a blind and nescient, ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"And thus, neither are all things performed immediately and miraculously by God
himself; neither are they all done fortuitously and ..."
5. Tours in Wales by Thomas Pennant (1810)
"... formed and flung up by some mighty internal convulsion, which has given these
vast groupes of stones fortuitously such a strange disposition; ..."
6. A Self-verifying Chronological History of Ancient Egypt: From the Foundation by Orlando P. Schmidt (1899)
"... the third king of this dynasty, and his reign of thirty-two years, thus
fortuitously preserved, turns out to be a most valuable link in the chain of ..."
7. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"That which happens fortuitously has to be simply accounted for by chance. ...
That which has happened fortuitously is an extraordinary event which could not ..."
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