Meaning peradventure
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peradventure(old-fashioned) perhaps, possibly
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peradventure1620s, from Middle English peraventure (mid-15c.), from per auenture (late 13c.), from Old French par aventure (see adventure). Refashioned as though from Latin.
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peradventureperhaps
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peradventure(n) doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case(adv) by chance
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peradventure
chance, doubt or uncertainty
* '''1800''', William R. Thayer, ''Woman Suffrage, Pro and Con'' (in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', volume 65, page 310)
*: By his death Bruno did not prove that his convic [..]
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peradventurelang=en
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* '''1678''' — . ''''.
*: Christian then seeing them lie in this case went to them, if peradventure he might awake them, and cried, You are like them that sleep on the top of a m [..]
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