Definition of "peradventure" [per•ad•ven•ture]

• Archaic Perhaps; perchance. (adverb)
• Chance or uncertainty; doubt. (noun)

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• "As for that, said the knight, I will be avised; but an thou wilt tell me thy name peradventure I will tell thee mine."
• "Might have known that "peradventure" would pop up."
• "I speake my minde freely of all things, yea, of such as peradventure exceed my sufficiencie, and that no way I hold to be of my jurisdiction."