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Definition of percase in English: percaseadverb pəˈkeɪs archaic By some chance; perhaps. I may percase use less diligence to serve and gain more quietness next Example sentencesExamples - They woulde percase say the same of Scotland but that their conscience told them contrary.
- Need or occasion hast thou aught, percase, wherein thou wouldst employ me?
- There were some things requisite in the manner of the levy for the better strengthening of the same, which percase could not be done without parliament.
- He laughed exceedingly, diverse times clapping his hands on his thighs for joy: percase to shadow out the delight, that both himself, and sinners take in their sins.
- I read your grace's great letters, and would have laid them up without further answer, were it not that, percase, my so doing might be mistaken.
Synonyms maybe, for all i know, for all you know, it could be, it could be that, it may be, it may be that, it is possible, it is possible that, possibly, conceivably, feasibly
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French par cas 'by chance'. |