What's the difference between mayhap and perchance?

Mayhap


Definition:

  • (adv.) Perhaps; peradventure.

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Perchance


Definition:

  • (adv.) By chance; perhaps; peradventure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The characters in "Rappaccini's Daughter" are much given to exclaiming "Perchance" or "Methinks", but the stagey vocalising, far from reducing the milieu into a poor pseudo-Scottian pastiche, actually gives them a strange floating temporality, halfway between myth and social reality.
  • (2) Whether perchance a couple of tentative man-hugs occurred, even an unabashed man-cry?
  • (3) Meanwhile Löw pops off to the loo, to fix his hair, or perchance a jobby.

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