The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contingently \Con*tin"gent*ly\, adv. In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
Wiktionary
adv. In a contingent manner; without foresight
Usage examples of "contingently".
In experience perceptions come together contingently only, so that no necessity of their connection could be discovered in the perceptions themselves, apprehension being only a composition of the manifold of empirical intuition, but containing no representation of the necessity of the connected existence, in space and time, of the phenomena which it places together.
Hence no one has ever succeeded in proving a synthetical proposition by pure concepts of the understanding only: as, for instance, the proposition that everything which exists contingently, has a cause.
Then the man's palm descended quietly, contingently, on the bosom of the girl's blouse.
Moreover, this is not meant just as a contingently true psychological fact about human beings, which could perhaps turn out one day not to hold for some exceptional individual or new type, some superman of disengaged objectification.