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luckily, adv.|ˈlʌkɪlɪ|
Also 6 luckely, luckilie, luckyly.
[f. lucky a. + -ly2.
The form luckely, frequent in 16th c., may belong to luckly adv.; cf., however, luckenes = luckiness.]
1. In a lucky manner; with good luck, successfully, prosperously, happily. Now rare.
1530Palsgr. 836/2 Happely, luckely, par eur, par bon eur. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xiii. 1–9 Other sum fel vpon a good and a frutful grounde, and springing vp luckeli, brought furth fruit. a1553― Royster D. i. v. (Arb.) 31 My dere spouse..whom..God luckily sende home to both our heartes ease. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. lxxviii. 546 The Romanistes..make their boaste, that..no Kinges..haue yet luckely assayled Rome. 1585J. B. tr. Viret's Sch. Beastes B, The esterne winde. Which brought you hither luckely. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §104 He..carried himself so luckily in Parliament, that he did his Master much service. 1668Dryden Dram. Poesy Ess. (1900) I. 80 All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. iii. 141 Several fine runs of..fresh water,..some of them so luckily situated, that the casks may be filled..with an hose. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. iii, ‘This,’ cried he, ‘happens still more luckily than I hoped for’.
2. Now chiefly used as a qualification of the sentence as a whole, indicating that the fact or circumstance stated is a lucky one.
1717Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Miss Sar. Chiswell 1 Apr., Luckily for me, I was so well deceived that I knew nothing of the matter. 1762Kames Elem. Crit. viii. (1774) I. 288 Luckily..our speculations are supported by facts. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 236 note, The poor blind man..told his tale; which, luckily for him, was believed. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe x. (1894) 236 Climbing a long snow-slope which was luckily in fair order. |