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Peradventure vs Perhaps - What's the difference?

peradventure | perhaps |

Perhaps is a synonym of peradventure.



As adverbs the difference between peradventure and perhaps

is that peradventure is perchance or maybe; perhaps; supposing while perhaps is Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty.

As a noun peradventure

is chance, doubt or uncertainty.

peradventure

English

Adverb

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  • (archaic) perchance or maybe; perhaps; supposing
  • * 1554 , , A Godly Letter of Warning or Admonition to the Faithfull in London, Newcastle, and Berwick :
    • For be God the Propheit was commandit to stand in the entress of the Lordis house, and to speik to all the cieties of Juda that come to wirschip in the house of the Lord; and was commandit to keip no word aback, gif peradventure , sayeth the Lord, thay will herkin and turne everie man frome his wickit way.
  • * Shakespeare
    • If peradventure he speak against me.
  • * Bible, Genesis xviii. 24
    • Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • chance, doubt or uncertainty
    • Proved beyond peradventure . — South.

    perhaps

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adverb

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  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • (rare) By chance.
  • * "...will live until he dies perhaps , and then lie down in clover." --Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl (song)

    • Synonyms

    * belike * maybe * mayhap * peradventure * perchance

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