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Perchance vs Perhaps - What's the difference?

perchance | perhaps |

Perhaps is a conjunction of perchance.

Perhaps is a synonym of perchance.



As adverbs the difference between perchance and perhaps

is that perchance is perhaps; by chance while perhaps is Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty.

perchance

English

Adverb

(-)
  • perhaps; by chance

    • Synonyms

    * by any chance * maybe * peradventure * perhaps * possibly * mayhap English calques

    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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    * English hedges English modal adverbs