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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

& c

onj.

[OE.

per aventure

, F.

par aventure

. See

, and

By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.

“If peradventure he speak against me.”

Shak.

Peradventure

there be fifty righteous within the city.

Gen. xviii. 24.

Noun.

Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question;

as, proved beyond

peradventure

South.

adv.

[L. venio, to come.] By chance; perhaps; it may be.

It has been used as a noun for doubt or question, but rather improperly. The word is obsolescent and inelegant.