Lexic.us

Definition of Happily

1. Adverb. In a joyous manner. "They shouted happily"

2. Adverb. In an unexpectedly lucky way. "Happily he was not injured"

Definition of Happily

1. adv. By chance; peradventure; haply.

Definition of Happily

1. Adverb. (archaic) By chance; perhaps. ¹

2. Adverb. By good chance; fortunately, successfully. ¹

3. Adverb. In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness. ¹

4. Adverb. With good will; in all happiness; willingly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Happily

1. happy [adv] - See also: happy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Happily

happenings happens happenstance happenstances happenstantially happi happie happied happier happies

happiest happified happifies happify happifying happily (current term) happily ever after happiness happinesses happing

happis happlicable happroach happroachin' happy happy-clappies happy-clappy happy-go-lucky happy as Larry happy as a clam

Literary usage of Happily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"X?e were there very happily near the end of our travels by land, that river being navigable in feven days ..."

2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"happily I recover, happily I become cool, My eyes regain their power, ... happily for me the spell is taken off, happily I walk; impervious to pain, I walk; ..."

3. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"Well, now we are so happily met, pray let me crave your name, and the name of the place ... happily ..."

4. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1909)
"... then at length should they range at will and perform no other service, save as a pastime, those, I mean, who are to live happily and who, after death, ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... less wonderful and happily still entire is the great candelabrum of Milan commonly known as "the Virgin's Tree". This chef-d'œuvre of twelfth- century ..."

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