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10 words match “PERCHANCE”

PERCHANCE adv.
By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
AUNTER n.
Adventure; hap. [Obs.] In aunters, perchance.
CHANCE adv.
By chance; perchance. Gray.
DISPOSITION n.
Mood; humor. As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. Shak.
PARAVENTURE adv.
Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
PARCASE adv.
Perchance; by chance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
PERCASE adv.
Perhaps; perchance. [Obs.] Bacon.
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.
RUB n.
obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch. Every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak. To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub. Shak. Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward. One knows not, certainly, what other rubs might have been ordained for us by a wise Providence. W. Besant.…
VICIOUS a.
Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect. Though I perchance am vicious in my guess. Shak. The title of these lords was vicious in its origin. Burke. A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. De Quincey.