Mayhappen

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adverb
  1. 1
    maybe, perhaps. dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete

    "[…] they hastened up, and presently stood before that cavern's mouth with doubt and joy mingled in their minds; for now, mayhappen, they had reached the gate of the Glittering Plain, or mayhappen the gate of death."

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"[…] they hastened up, and presently stood before that cavern's mouth with doubt and joy mingled in their minds; for now, mayhappen, they had reached the gate of the Glittering Plain, or mayhappen the gate of death."

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