What's the difference between peradventure and perchance?

Peradventure


Definition:

  • (adv. & conj.) By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.
  • (n.) Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said it was clear "beyond peradventure that those who attend the masses are nearly all what the archdiocese calls 'non-celibate gay people' who intend to continue to defy Catholic teaching".
  • (2) "This is a government that has the policy intention of bringing migration down to proper levels, to putting in place a proper system for choosing the right migrants to come to this country, and not allowing the unrestricted immigration which we have seen in the past … [what Yvette Cooper] demonstrated beyond peradventure today is that however great is her intellect – and it is great – she has an even greater brass neck in dealing with the record of the last Labour government."

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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