percase
/pəˈkeɪs
/adverb archaic
By some chance; perhaps: I may percase use less diligence to serve and gain more quietness next...
- 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?
- 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.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French par cas 'by chance'.
- the Nazarene
- thence
- thenceforth
- thenceforward
- the Needles
- the Net
- the new black
- the new kid on the block
- the new normal
- the next world
- the night's (only) a pup
- the Nine
- the nizam
- the noble art (or science) (of self-defence)
- the noes have it
- the north–south divide
- theo-
- the Oaks
- the object of the exercise
- theobromine
- theocentric
- theocracy
- theocrat
- theocratic
- theocratically