Meaning & use
Peradventure
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Perhaps or possibly; used chiefly in older or formal English to express doubt or uncertainty.
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If, peradventure, the letter arrives late, please forward it at once.
He wondered, peradventure, whether he had made the right choice.
A note on using this word
This archaic adverb, from Old French par aventure ("by chance"), now survives mainly in legal and literary English, and as a noun meaning "doubt," as in the phrase "beyond peradventure."
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certainly
Another way to use it
2. noun
Doubt or uncertainty, especially in the phrase "beyond peradventure."
The evidence proved his innocence beyond peradventure.
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