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perchance

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per⋅chance

  [per-chans, -chahns]
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–adverb
1. Literary. perhaps; maybe; possibly.
2. Archaic. by chance.
Origin:
1300–50; ME, var. of par chance by chance < AF. See per, chance
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per·chance   (pər-chāns')   
adv.  Perhaps; possibly.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman par chance : par, by (from Latin per; see per) + chance, chance (from Old French; see chance).]
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perchance 
1340, parchaunce, from O.Fr. par cheance, lit. "by chance." With L. per substituted c.1400 for Fr. cognate par.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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