Careful Words

perhaps (adv.)

  • conceivably
  • feasibly
  • haply
  • imaginably
  • maybe
  • perchance
  • possibly
  • shot

  His religion at best is an anxious wish,—like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828.

Perhaps it may turn out a sang,

Perhaps turn out a sermon.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): Epistle to a Young Friend.

Perhaps it may turn out a sang,

Perhaps turn out a sermon.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): Epistle to a Young Friend.