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MAYHAP
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
By chance
Example:
it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time
Synonyms:
maybe; mayhap; peradventure; perchance; perhaps; possibly
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Context examples:
But mayhap it is best to let the wool grow long ere you clip it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mayhap he will sing it when the ale has warmed him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Or mayhap they have come to the mouth of the gorge, and are marshalling their ranks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ah, you would indeed be in luck then, quoth a woodman; for it is said that, setting aside the prince, and mayhap good old Sir John Chandos, there was not in the whole army a man of such tried courage.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Know then that if these rows were dug up the wealth of the country would be gone, and mayhap there would be dry throats and gaping mouths in England, for in three months' time these black roots will blossom and shoot and burgeon, and from them will come many a good ship-load of Medoc and Gascony which will cross the narrow seas.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
