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Perhaps

//pəˈhæps// adv, noun

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Possibly. not-comparable

    "Perhaps John will come over for dinner."

  2. 2
    By chance. dated, not-comparable

    "[…] will live until he dies perhaps, and then lie down in clover."

Adverb
  1. 1
    by chance wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An uncertainty.

    "I cannot conceive what atheism, or skepticism, or positivism could do for me now, with their negations, and endless and contradictory perhapses, and perhapses, and perhapses."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).

Etymology 2

From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).

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