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PERCHANCE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
By chance
Example:
it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time
Synonyms:
maybe; mayhap; peradventure; perchance; perhaps; possibly
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
Through chance
Example:
To sleep, perchance to dream...
Synonyms:
by chance; perchance
Classified under:
Domain usage:
archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)
Context examples:
Have you perchance met with some hurt during the ruffle?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Have you perchance a priest or friar aboard this ship, Master Hawtayne?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By St. Paul! quoth the knight, but this is a passing strange sight, and perchance some very perilous and honorable venture may arise from it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Perchance it would be well that we should ask him whither he rides, for it may be that he is one who desires to advance himself in chivalry.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Canst change thy robe for a jerkin once more at the Abbey, unless perchance you have a friend near at hand.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We well know that through it corn-land has been turned into pasture, so that flocks of sheep with perchance a single shepherd wander now where once a hundred men had work and wage.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It would, perchance, be best that the novices be not admitted,” suggested the master.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“This is over sudden,” she said; “it is not so long since the world was nothing to you. You have changed once; perchance you may change again.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fear not, my fair damsel, said Sir Nigel, but tell me if perchance a poor and most unworthy knight can in any wise be of service to you.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Perchance Sir Nigel, with his love of all the dying usages of chivalry, might have contrived some strange ordeal or feat of arms by which his love should be put to the test.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
