Peradventure vs Venture - What's the difference?
peradventure | venture |
(archaic) perchance or maybe; perhaps; supposing
* 1554 , ,
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Genesis xviii. 24
A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
* 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
* Shakespeare
To undertake a risky or daring journey.
* J. Dryden, Jr.
To risk or offer.
* Shakespeare
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
To put or send on a venture or chance.
To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
* Addison
To say something.
As nouns the difference between peradventure and venture
is that peradventure is chance, doubt or uncertainty while venture is a risky or daring undertaking or journey.As an adverb peradventure
is (archaic) perchance or maybe; perhaps; supposing.As a verb venture is
to undertake a risky or daring journey.peradventure
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Adverb
(-)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.
- If peradventure he speak against me.
- Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city.
venture
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Noun
(en noun)- My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
- (Francis Bacon)
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Verb
(ventur)- who freights a ship to venture on the seas
- to venture funds
- to venture a guess
- I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
- Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
- to venture a horse to the West Indies
- A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.