peradventure
Americanadverb
noun
Etymology
Origin of peradventure
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English per aventure, from Old French; per, adventure
Example Sentences
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For example it's much more useful to know the word "house" than the word "abode," and you'll get fewer odd looks if you say "perhaps" rather than "peradventure".
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2018
And because it would not be illegal for that pooch to kill, peradventure, a fox, it follows that if the hounds veer onto a real scent and make a kill, no law has been broken.
From Economist • Mar. 5, 2015
Put Federal credit beyond peradventure of a doubt.
From Time Magazine Archive
In doing so we must demonstrate beyond peradventure of doubt that we are what we maintain.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Sirs, while I would liefer commend the nobility of restraint, here must I endorse rather the vigor of lively opposition, lest, peradventure, we find that inaction is in itself the occasion of profligacy.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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