[UN-1 11: cf. prec. and MSw. oliklika.] Improbably.

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c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., III. xiii. 361. The oon bifore seid epistle putt and ascryued vnlikeli to Constantyn.

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1641.  Milton, Ch. Govt., I. vii. 40. [He] may fall not unlikely some times … into an uncouth opinion.

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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.

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1830.  Southey, in Corr. w. C. Bowles (1881), 199. This provides also (most unlikely), in case of his half-craziness again becoming whole-craziness.

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1867.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. v. 298. The church … may, not unlikely, have been raised … to commemorate the event.

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