perhaps

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Word Origin & History

1520s, formed from Middle English per, par "by, through" (see per-) + plural of hap "chance" (see happen), on model of peradventure, perchance, etc. which now have been superseded by this word. Perhappons "possibly, by chance" is recorded from late 15c.

Example Sentences forperhaps

In the course of this process he fell into adventures, some of them, perhaps, unedifying.

Perhaps you already know that Anaxagoras fell asleep in Ionia.

Here, perhaps, may be found the symbolic clue to the strife's cause.

Perhaps my father might have put that in a bottle also at a later date.

Would he annoy her, enrage her perhaps, or even worse, tire her?

Or perhaps it's a brutal revenge on me,—after thinking I'd only marry for money.

As it can be "no joke" to them, perhaps it should be no joke to us: though, on reflection, we are not so very like.

"Perhaps it is as you say," said Captain Haley, thoughtfully.

One of these was "Ole Chariot," perhaps as a rhyme to the name by which they called her.

She simply lived by her wits, and perhaps by some want of that article in her male friends.

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