"chancely" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English chauncely",
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        "3": "-ly",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English chauncely, chaunselich, equivalent to chance + -ly.",
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      "expansion": "chancely (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1894, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 103, page 248",
          "text": "But by the grace of Almighty Creator I found chancely such a wife in the wilderness, […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "By chance."
      ],
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          "By chance",
          "by chance"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) By chance."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "chancely"
}

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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "chauncely"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English chauncely",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "chance",
        "3": "-ly",
        "id2": "adverbial"
      },
      "expansion": "chance + -ly",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English chauncely, chaunselich, equivalent to chance + -ly.",
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      "expansion": "chancely (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adverbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "But by the grace of Almighty Creator I found chancely such a wife in the wilderness, […]",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "By chance."
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        "(archaic) By chance."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "chancely"
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