perchance
pronunciation
How to pronounce perchance in British English:
UK [pəˈtʃɑ:ns]
How to pronounce perchance in American English:
US [pərˈtʃæns]
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- Adverb:
- through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.."
- by chance
Word Origin
- perchance
- perchance: see perhaps
- perchance (adv.)
- mid-14c., parchaunce, from Old French par cheance, literally "by chance." With Latin per substituted c. 1400 for French cognate par.
Synonym
Example
- 1. It is our children 's children who may perchance be really free .
- 2. All summer , and far into the autumn , perchance , you unconsciously went by the newspapers and the news , and now you find it was because the morning and the evening were full of news to you .
- 3. Yet perchance to-morrow deception will so act on me , that I shall , on compulsion , consider such a contemptible possession as the utmost happiness .
- 4. The complaint of a human heart , sorrow-laden , perchance guilty , telling its secret , whether of guilt or sorrow , to the great heart of mankind ;
- 5. The great dead are beyond our physical reach , and the great living are usually almost as inaccessible ; as for our personal friends and acquaintances , we cannot always see them . Perchance they are asleep , or away on a journey .