peradventure adverb 1noun 1forms 1 adverb1 •(no longer used) Perchance or maybe; perhaps; supposing.Besides he tells me, that, if peraduenture / He speake against me on the aduerse side, / I should not thinke it strange, for 'tis a physicke / That's bitter, to sweet end. — 1603 noun1 •(literary) Chance, doubt or uncertainty.Covetousness cracks the sinews of faith; numbs the apprehension of any thing above sense; and only affected with the certainty of things present, makes a peradventure of things to come […] — 1716 formsperadventures
