"perchance" in the adverb sense
1. perchance, by chance
through chance
"To sleep, perchance to dream..."
2. possibly, perchance, perhaps, maybe, mayhap, peradventure
by chance
"perhaps she will call tomorrow"
"we may possibly run into them at the concert"
"it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"
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