How to pronounce“peradventure”in English
IPA/pɛrædvɛntjʌːr/
Syllablespe·rad·ven·ture
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Definitions of “peradventure”
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adverb
Perchance or maybe; perhaps; supposing.
“For be God the Propheit was commandit to stand in the entress of the Lordis house, and to speik to all the cieties of Juda that come to wirschip in the house of the Lord; and was commandit to keip no word aback, gif peradventure, sayeth the Lord, thay will herkin and turne everie man frome his wickit way.”
noun
Chance, doubt or uncertainty.
“Covetousness cracks the sinews of faith; numbs the apprehension of any thing above sense; and only affected with the certainty of things present, makes a peradventure of things to come […]”