Perchance
adverb
By some chance; perhaps, maybe.
Perchance he will arrive on time.
Often appears as...
- perchance to dream
- perchance to meet
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
adverb
By some chance; perhaps, maybe.
Perchance he will arrive on time.
Often appears as...
- perchance to dream
- perchance to meet
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Literary Flavor
Used more in writing, adds a classic or poetic tone.
Perchance, upon the morrow, I shall behold the visage of my friend.
Pro Tip 2/3Rare in Speech
Not commonly used in everyday conversation, could sound old-fashioned.
I asked him perchance he knew the time, and he looked puzzled.
Pro Tip 3/3Uncertain Possibility
Expresses a sense of uncertainty or chance without full commitment.
Perchance you've seen my lost puppy in your travels?
Pro Tip 1/3Literary Flavor
Used more in writing, adds a classic or poetic tone.
Perchance, upon the morrow, I shall behold the visage of my friend.
Pro Tip 2/3Rare in Speech
Not commonly used in everyday conversation, could sound old-fashioned.
I asked him perchance he knew the time, and he looked puzzled.
Pro Tip 3/3Uncertain Possibility
Expresses a sense of uncertainty or chance without full commitment.
Perchance you've seen my lost puppy in your travels?
Pro Tip 1/3Literary Flavor
Used more in writing, adds a classic or poetic tone.
Perchance, upon the morrow, I shall behold the visage of my friend.
Pro Tip 2/3Rare in Speech
Not commonly used in everyday conversation, could sound old-fashioned.
I asked him perchance he knew the time, and he looked puzzled.
Pro Tip 3/3Uncertain Possibility
Expresses a sense of uncertainty or chance without full commitment.
Perchance you've seen my lost puppy in your travels?
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How the pandemic will...
will be worse as we get into the fall. So there are scenarios where in the US, like, if you extrapolate those numbers forward, we end up with, what, more than a quarter of a million deaths, perchance, even this year if we're not careful, and worldwide, I guess the death toll could, by the end of the year,
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Safari Live - Day 257 PIPE...
like sucker there it is sucker and pretty spending their afternoon curled up in the shade how very interesting well that's good news for us if perchance the Hinds decide not to go to
Video examples
How the pandemic will...
will be worse as we get into the fall. So there are scenarios where in the US, like, if you extrapolate those numbers forward, we end up with, what, more than a quarter of a million deaths, perchance, even this year if we're not careful, and worldwide, I guess the death toll could, by the end of the year,
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Safari Live - Day 257 PIPE...
like sucker there it is sucker and pretty spending their afternoon curled up in the shade how very interesting well that's good news for us if perchance the Hinds decide not to go to
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Quote examples
John James Audubon
American Scientist
There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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Origen
Theologian
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
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Robert Browning
English Poet
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
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L. Wolfe Gilbert
Russian Musician
Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
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Swami Sivananda
Indian Philosopher
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
Quote examples
John James Audubon
American Scientist
There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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Origen
Theologian
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
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Robert Browning
English Poet
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
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L. Wolfe Gilbert
Russian Musician
Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
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Swami Sivananda
Indian Philosopher
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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