单词 | by peradventure |
释义 | > as lemmasby (also at) (a) peradventure ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [phrase] > by chance by perchance1495 at a venture1517 per accidens1528 at hazard (also hazards)a1533 at random1543 by occasion1562 at range1568 by the way1572 by (also at) (a) peradventurea1586 hit or miss1609 at the by1611 hob-nob1660 hit and miss1897 a1586 Answer Cartwright 17 He alleadgeth another proofe by peraduenture. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxv. vii. 290/2 Nor thinke you this preferment to proceed, By peraduenture, or as it twere by chance. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 229 The lots are throwne at randome, and at peradventure. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 408 A man by mere peradventure lights into company. 1701 J. Collier tr. Mythol. Pict. Cebes in M. Aurelius Conversat. (1726) 326 For she never acts upon Reason, but throws out every Thing at Peradventure. 1844 J. S. Stone in New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Oct. 513/1 Every such believer..is saved, not by chance, or by possibility, or by peradventure, but by promise, and under the oath of the covenant. 1895 A. Lang tr. Monk of Fife xviii. 239 I saw the violet woman..place her finger, as it were by peradventure, on her lips. < as lemmas |
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