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[ adverb ] (archaic) through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.."

Synonyms

by_chance

Used in print

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

Was it supposed , perchance , that A_+_M ( vocational_training , that_is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant_class which flooded that part of the New_England world in the post Civil_War period , the immigrants having been brought_in from Southern Europe , to work in the mills , to make_up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West ?

Related terms

archaism

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[ adverb ] by chance

Examples

"perhaps she will call tomorrow" "we may possibly run into them at the concert" "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"

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