"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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          "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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        "(archaic) perhaps; by chance"
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          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
          "word": "случайно"
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          "roman": "može bi",
          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
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          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
          "word": "mogelijkerwijs"
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          "roman": "yadākdācit",
          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
          "word": "यदाकदाचित"
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          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
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          "sense": "perhaps, by chance",
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