"perchance" meaning in English

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          "text": "You wouldn't, perchance, have a bottle opener on you, would you?",
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          "ref": "1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, section XVII",
          "text": "Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him[…]",
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          "ref": "1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, section XXVII",
          "text": "A great black bird, Apollyon's bosom-friend, / Sailed past, nor beat his wide wing dragon-penned / That brushed my cap—perchance the guide I sought.",
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        "perhaps; by chance"
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        {
          "word": "by any chance"
        },
        {
          "word": "maybe"
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        {
          "word": "peradventure"
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        {
          "word": "perhaps"
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "slučajno",
          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
          "word": "случайно"
        },
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "može bi",
          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
          "word": "може би"
        },
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          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "yadākdācit",
          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
          "word": "यदाकदाचित"
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          "code": "pdt",
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          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
          "word": "veleicht"
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          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
          "word": "porventura"
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          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
          "word": "por ventura"
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      "ipa": "/ˌpɜɹˈtʃæns/",
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      "ipa": "/pəɹˈtʃæns/",
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      "ipa": "[ˌpɝˈt͡ʃʰɛə̯ns]",
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      "rhymes": "-ɑːns"
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      "rhymes": "-æns"
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  "word": "perchance"
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      "ipa": "/ˌpɜɹˈtʃæns/",
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      "word": "peradventure"
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      "word": "perhaps"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "slučajno",
      "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
      "word": "случайно"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "može bi",
      "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
      "word": "може би"
    },
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      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "yadākdācit",
      "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
      "word": "यदाकदाचित"
    },
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      "code": "pdt",
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      "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
      "word": "veleicht"
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      "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
      "word": "porventura"
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      "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
      "word": "por ventura"
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  "word": "perchance"
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