Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Perhaps; possibly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
- By chance; accidentally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
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- adverb
perhaps ; bychance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb by chance
- adverb through chance,
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Obsolete has been keeping an eye on Alisher Usmanov Parental Guidance, unless Schillings have perchance added a short word beginning in c to their name?
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Obsolete has been keeping an eye on Alisher Usmanov Parental Guidance, unless Schillings have perchance added a short word beginning in c to their name?
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Shrewsbury, and if I told my name perchance it might travel back, and I was in no mind to have my mischances retailed in the town.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang
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Within a very little while, thou wilt be either ashes, or a sceletum; and a name perchance; and perchance, not so much as a name.
Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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-- I am a man of the people, a man who acts, -- I _was_, I mean, -- not a man who thinks; and all your subtleties of word perchance entrap me.
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If perchance a kasid or a chance traveler entered Santipur, the trick he had practised there would be immediately discovered; but if the messenger only touched at the places on the direct route on the other bank, he might hope that some time would elapse before the authorities there suspected that he had left the river.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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May-time, that I shall never hold that dainty oval face in my hands again, shall look into those beautiful eyes no more, that all the intimacy of her person is now but a memory never to be renewed by actual presence -- in these moments of passionate memory one experiences real grief, a pang that never has found expression perchance except in
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-- I am a man of the people, a man who acts, -- I was, I mean, -- not a man who thinks; and all your subtleties of word perchance entrap me.
Dark Ways 1863
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On this morning of the Great Snow, perchance, which is still raging and chilling men's blood, I bear the muffled tone of their engine bell from out the fog bank of their chilled breath, which announces that the cars are coming, without long delay, notwithstanding the veto of a New England northeast snow-storm, and
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
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quotato commented on the word perchance
or, at least I shall dream about it.
March 1, 2007
orbitalcombustion commented on the word perchance
"To sleep, perchance to dream."
October 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word perchance
Or in my case, "To lie down, perchance to sleep." (See insomnia.)
October 6, 2007
bilby commented on the word perchance
"Those which lately even I tasted only to repent of it,--for I am semi-civilized,--which the farmer willingly left on the tree, I am now glad to find have the property of hanging on like the leaves of the young oaks. It is a way to keep cider sweet without boiling. Let the frost come to freeze them first, solid as stones, and then the rain or a warm winter day to thaw them, and they will seem to have borrowed a flavor from heaven through the medium of the air in which they hang. Or perchance you find, when you get home, that those which rattled in your pocket have thawed, and the ice is turned to cider." - 'Wild Apples', Henry David Thoreau.
December 14, 2007