perchance

Definition

Perhaps.

Etymology

From Middle English parchaunce, from Old French par cheance (“by chance”).

Example Sentences

• "You wouldn't, perchance, have a bottle opener on you, would you?"
• "Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him[…]"
• "“Yet pull not down my palace towers, that are / So lightly, beautifully built: / Perchance I may return with others there / When I have purged my guilt.”"