Perchance Definition

pər-chăns
adverb
By chance; accidentally.
Webster's New World
Perhaps; possibly.
Webster's New World

Perhaps; by chance.

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Origin of Perchance

  • Middle English from Anglo-Norman par chance par by (from Latin per per) chance chance (from Old French chance)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Calque of Old French par cheance (“by luck, by casualty")

    From Wiktionary

Perchance Sentence Examples

  • But perchance it would be wisest never to put one's paw into it.

  • Do you, perchance, have any links / evidence to back this up?

  • The mason who finishes the cornice of the palace returns at night perchance to a hut not so good as a wigwam.

  • Successive nations perchance have drank at, admired, and fathomed it, and passed away, and still its water is green and pellucid as ever.

  • At the diet which opened in December 1522 at Nuremberg he was represented by Chieregati, whose instructions contain the frank admission that the whole disorder of the church had perchance proceeded from the Curia itself, and that there the reform should begin.

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