Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Perhaps; perchance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Perhaps; perchance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete
perhaps ;perchance
Etymologies
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Examples
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An example will make my meaning attained, and yet percase make it thought that they attained it not.
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He's gon, he's gone, alass! percase he's gone for aie.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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"For it is so that to morrow I purpose to ryde in to Flaundyrs to purveye me off horse and herneys and percase I shall see the essege at Nwse er I come ageyn."
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam
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“For it is so that to morrow I purpose to ryde in to Flaundyrs to purveye me off horse and herneys and percase I shall see the essege at Nwse er I come ageyn.”
Charles the Bold Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 1908
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I may percase mine own self with my Latin beguile.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Except percase it shall fortune to make you laugh well.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Or else have great harm, and percase their life lese.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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But the queen percase misliked these folleries as by her letters to sir
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822
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• 1990-present — about 90 percent almost six briefs percase.
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Amongst the which this last is of special use in moral and civil matters; how, I say, to set affection against affection, and to master one by another; even as we used to hunt beast with beast, and fly bird with bird, which otherwise percase we could not so easily recover: upon which foundation is erected that excellent use of praemium and paena, whereby civil states consist: employing the predominant affections of fear and hope, for the suppressing and bridling the rest.
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