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Peradventure

noun

Doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case.

adverb

By chance. Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly. "We may possibly run into them at the concert" , "It may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"

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"Peradventure" Quotes from Famous Books

... me to speak unto the Lord, I who would have been turned long since into dust of the ground by Amraphel and into ashes by Nimrod, had it not been for Thy grace.[163] Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous for Zoar, the smallest of the five cities. Wilt Thou destroy all the city ...

— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg

... while I watch thee: full fair is the garden, Perchance mid the flowers thy sweet dream may find thee, And thou shalt have pleasure and peace for a little.— (Aside) And my soul shall depart ere thou wak'st peradventure. ...

— Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough • William Morris

... war was to go on it was to be waged mainly by Zeeland alone. This was now plain beyond all peradventure. The other provinces had resolved to accept the proposed treaty. The cities of Delft and Amsterdam, which had stood out so long among the estates of Holland, soon renounced their opposition. Prince Maurice, with praiseworthy patriotism, reconciled himself with the inevitable, and now that the ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... and told him that there was a prediction that he should slay that monster. And Peredur gave the head to the young men, and they offered him in marriage whichever of the three sisters he might choose, and half their kingdom with her. "I came not hither to woo," said Peredur, "but if peradventure I took a wife, I should prefer your sister to all others." And Peredur rode forward, and he heard a noise behind him. And he looked back, and saw a man upon a red horse, with red armour upon him; and the man rode up by his side, and saluted him, and wished him the ...

— The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3) • Owen M. Edwards

... carriage of some magnate of the city, peradventure an alderman or a sheriff, and now the patter of many feet announces it procession of charity scholars in uniforms of antique cut, and each with a prayer-book ...

— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving

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