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peradventures

peradventures is the plural of peradventure.

Meaning of peradventure

Noun

peradventure (plural peradventures)

  1. (literary) Chance, doubt or uncertainty.
    • Covetousness cracks the sinews of faith; numbs the apprehension of any thing above sense; and only affected with the certainty of things present, makes a peradventure of things to come […]1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 16

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Questions about peradventures

What is peradventures the plural of?
Peradventures is the plural of peradventure.

Words near peradventures in the dictionary

  1. peracting
  2. peracute
  3. peradectid
  4. peradectids
  5. peradventure
  6. peradventures
  7. peraea
  8. Peraean
  9. Peraeans
  10. peraeon
  11. peraeopod

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