Peradventure

Quick meaning: Peradventure is an adverb meaning (literary) Chance, doubt or uncertainty.

Meaning

(literary) Chance, doubt or uncertainty.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) Perchance or maybe; perhaps; supposing.

Example Sentences

Peraduenture there be fifty righteous within the citie; wilt thou also destroy, and not spare the place for the fiftie righteous, that are therein?

Often, too, / The pedlar stopped, and tapped her on the head / With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed, / And asked if peradventure she could read.

Beſides he tells me, that, if peraduenture / He ſpeake againſt me on the aduerse ſide, / I ſhould not thinke it ſtrange, for 'tis a phyſicke / That's bitter, to ſweet end.

Covetousness cracks the sinews of faith; numbs the apprehension of any thing above sense; and only affected with the certainty of things present, makes a peradventure of things to come […]

Word Forms

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Synonyms for peradventure

Depending on context, synonyms include perchance, possibly, maybe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include maybe, possibly, perchance, percase, perh, p'r'aps.

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