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Definition of "perchance" []

  • Perhaps; possibly. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "perchance" in a sentence
  • "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?"
  • "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."
  • "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."