peradventure

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PERADVENT'URE, adverb [Latin venio, to come.] By chance; perhaps; it may be. It has been used as a noun for doubt or question, but rather improperly. The word is obsolescent and inelegant.
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