perchance
adv/ˌpɜːˈtʃɑːns/UK/ˌpɜɹˈtʃæns/US
Etymology
From Middle English parchaunce, from Old French par cheance (“by chance”).
- derived from par cheance
- inherited from parchaunce
Definitions
Perhaps.
- You wouldn't, perchance, have a bottle opener on you, would you?
- Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him[…]
- “Yet pull not down my palace towers, that are / So lightly, beautifully built: / Perchance I may return with others there / When I have purged my guilt.”
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for perchance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA