Lexic.us

Definition of Perchance

1. Adverb. Through chance,. "To sleep, perchance to dream.."

2. Adverb. By chance. "It may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"

Definition of Perchance

1. adv. By chance; perhaps; peradventure.

Definition of Perchance

1. Adverb. perhaps; by chance ¹

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Definition of Perchance

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perchance

perceptual disorders perceptual distortion perceptual expansion perceptual experience perceptual masking perceptual set perceptualize perceptualized perceptualizes perceptualizing

perceptually perceptuomotor perces percesoces perch perchance (current term) perched perched wetland percher perchers

perchery perches perching perching bird perching birds perchings perchless perchlike perchlorate perchlorates

Literary usage of Perchance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"genius upon the wane, striking a last blow for the ideals, mistaken, perchance, but manfully pursued, which Florence followed through the several stages of ..."

2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Thus said, at least, my mountain-guide, Though deep perchance the villain lied.' 1 Yet why a second venture try ? ' ' A warrior thou, and ask me why ! ..."

3. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... where the weary voyageur could read the journal of some other sailor, whose bark had ploughed, perchance, more famous and classic seas. ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Brave, frank, open-hearted, steadfast, generous, unselfish—a soul which had, perchance, in its abounding energy, over-weighted itself with too much and too ..."

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