PERADVENTURE

adv. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
adv.

By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. "If peradventure he speak against me." Shak. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city. Gen. xviii. 24.

2.
n.

Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure. South.


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