Careful Words

perchance (adv.)

  • accidentally
  • casually
  • conceivably
  • feasibly
  • fortuitously
  • haply
  • imaginably
  • incidentally
  • maybe
  • perhaps
  • possibly
  • somehow
  • unpredictably

The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew,

The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,—too many, yet how few!

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 24.

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak

With most miraculous organ.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.