Perchance
[pə'tʃɑːns] or [pɚ'tʃæns]
Definition
(adv.) By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
Editor: Michel
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Perhaps, possibly, by chance, haply, PERADVENTURE, maybe, it may be, as luck may have it.
Checked by Kathy
Definition
adv. by chance: perhaps.
Typed by Felix
Examples
- So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Perchance some nymph bore me to one of the old gods, who Heine says yet walk the earth in other forMs What do you know of Heine? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- If perchance some stricken Asiatic come among us, plague dies with him, uncommunicated and innoxious. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Perchance some faint rumour of me may have leaked within the confines of your hellish abode. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- If, perchance, the black is killed, it is evidence of his disloyalty to Issus--the unpardonable sin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But since your reverend wisdom hath discovered this Jewish queen to be a sorceress, perchance it may account fully for his enamoured folly. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Your cousin Edmund moves slowly; detained, perchance, by parish duties. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Checker: Marge