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▪ I. † haps, adv. Obs.
Also 6 happes
[f. hap n.1, with adverbial -s: cf. perhaps.]
‘By hap’, haply perhaps, perchance.
1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. c iij b, Who so snatcheth up follies too greedilie may happes prove a wittome whiles he fisheth for finer witte. 1595― P. Pennilesse (ed. 2) Ep. to Printer A ij, I might haps (halfe a yeare hence) write the returne of the Knight of the Post from Hell. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 94 It may haps be objected on the other part, That [etc.].
▪ II. haps(e, happys
obs. forms of hasp. |