peradventure

Examples

• All

• Let not the Lord be angry and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure, 10 shall be found there.

  The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)

• Peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death.

  A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

• Peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I will sing it at her death.

  Return with Honor (1999)

• We should not be particularly worried about that because there is, in fact, very little of interest about the world that we can demonstrate beyond a peradventure.

  Academic text (1991)

• " It is beyond peradventure that correctional officers working for a private, for-profit corporation that has contracted with the state are serving a public interest.

  Academic text (1997)

• Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than it is meant, Captain Macmorris, peradventure I shall think you do not use me... with that affability as in discretion you ought to use me, now look you, being as good a man as yourself.

  Henry V (1989)

• 5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

  Blog text (10)

• He showed them documents, employee records, and witness statements demonstrating "beyond peradventure of doubt" that the TDA limited partnership was a tax-evasion shell with no conceivable commercial purpose.

  Fiction book (1995)

• He wondered, with some peradventure, if he had made the right decision.

• In the face of such uncertainty, she felt a sense of peradventure about the project's success.

Synonyms

D

doubt

vsperadventure

∞ 1.6

A feeling of not being sure about something

is the archaic term for that same feeling

U

uncertainty

vsperadventure

296 4.0

Not being sure about what will happen or what to do

is the archaic term for that lack of certainty

S

skepticism

vsperadventure

• US

124 5.1

A feeling of doubt about an idea or claim when there is not enough proof

is the archaic word for doubt rather than a sustained questioning habit

D

dubiousness

vsperadventure

1 7.8

A feeling of doubt or not trusting something

is the archaic term for that uncertain or suspicious state

D

doubtfulness

vsperadventure

5.5

A feeling of not being sure about something

is the archaic label for that uncertain state

D

dubiety

vsperadventure

• Formal

9.9

A feeling of doubt or uncertainty about something

is the archaic word for that doubtful quality

U

unsureness

vsperadventure

3.8

A feeling of doubt or low confidence

is the archaic expression for that feeling of not knowing

I

incertitude

vsperadventure

• Formal

8.9

A feeling of not being sure or confident about something

is the archaic label for that lack of confidence

N

noncertainty

vsperadventure

8.8

A feeling of not being sure about something

is the archaic way to name that absence of certainty

How Certain

certainty

• Literature

202 3.4

belief

∞ 1.1

peradventure

• Archaic

1 9.9

speculation

288 4.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology