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Peradventure

noun

Doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case.

adverb

By chance. Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly. "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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... servant of the Lord," he will "not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the ...

— When the Holy Ghost is Come • Col. S. L. Brengle

... and for the first time in all my experience I realized that I was face to face with a dual personality. The transformation was so complete that I might easily have been duped had I not known beyond peradventure the identity of Yolanda ...

— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major

... to fight and to slay men. And they drink gladliest man's blood, the which they clepe Dieu. And the more men that a man may slay, the more worship he hath amongst them. And if two persons be at debate and, peradventure, be accorded by their friends or by some of their alliance, it behoveth that every of them that shall be accorded drink of other's blood: and else the accord ne the alliance is nought worth: ne it shall not be no reproof to him to break the alliance and the ...

— The Travels of Sir John Mandeville • Author Unknown

... were the low words, "but a living and an accountable creature of the Lord's. Many a day has passed since such a sight hath been witnessed in this vale; but my eye greatly deceives me, or yonder cometh one ready to ask for hospitality, and, peradventure, for Christian and ...

— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper

... Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, ...

— The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete • Anonymous

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