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13 words match “PERADVENTURE”

PERADVENTURE adv. 2 definitions
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.
ACCEPT v.
To receive with favor; to approve. The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice. Ps. xx. 3. Peradventure he will accept of me. Gen. xxxii. 20.
EITHER conj.
is correlative to or. Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth. 1 Kings xviii. 27. Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede. Latham.
HAPPILY adv.
By chance; peradventure; haply. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
LACK v.
, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. What hour now I think it lacks of twelve. Shak. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty. Gen. xvii. 28.
MAY v.
." Dryden. May be, and It may be, are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, by chance, peradventure. See 1st Maybe.
MAYBE adv.
Perhaps; possibly; peradventure. Maybe the amorous count solicits her. Shak. In a liberal and, maybe, somewhat reckless way. Tylor.
MAYHAP adv.
Perhaps; peradventure. [Prov. or Dialectic]
PARAUNTER adv.
Peradventure. See Paraventure. [Obs.] Chaucer.
PARAVENTURE adv.
Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
PERCHANCE adv.
By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
PERHAPS adv.
By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be. And pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. Acts viii. 22.
REPENT v.
change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction. Lest, peradventure, the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt. Ex. xiii. 17.