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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Perchance \Per*chance"\, adverb [F. par by (L. per) + chance. See {Par}, and {Chance}.] By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
perchance
adverb
1: through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.." [syn: {by chance}]
2: by chance; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time" [syn: {possibly}, {perhaps}, {maybe}, {mayhap}, {peradventure}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "perchance": accidentally, as it chanced, by a fluke, by accident, by chance, by good fortune, by hazard, casually, conceivably, feasibly, for some reason, fortuitously, haply, imaginably, in some way, incidentally, it may be, maybe, perhaps, possibly, somehow, somehow or other, unpredictably
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