[UN-1 11: cf. prec. and MSw. oliklika.] Improbably.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. xiii. 361. The oon bifore seid epistle putt and ascryued vnlikeli to Constantyn.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., I. vii. 40. [He] may fall not unlikely some times into an uncouth opinion.
1716. Pope, Lett. (1737), I. 146. The pleasures must undoubtedly be of a nobler kind, and (not unlikely) may proceed from the discoveries each shall communicate to another, of God and of nature.
1830. Southey, in Corr. w. C. Bowles (1881), 199. This provides also (most unlikely), in case of his half-craziness again becoming whole-craziness.
1867. Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. v. 298. The church may, not unlikely, have been raised to commemorate the event.