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mayhap

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may·hap  (mhp, m-hp)
adv.
Perhaps; perchance.
[From the phrase it may hap.]
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Adv.1.mayhap - by chance; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"
maybe, peradventure, perhaps, possibly, perchance


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But hows'ever, mayhap, ye've heard tell about the leg, and how he lost it; aye, ye have heard of that, I dare say.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Sir Launcelot will give battle to dragons, and will abide by them, and will assail them again, and yet again, and still again, until he do conquer and destroy them; and so likewise will Sir Pellinore and Sir Aglovale and Sir Carados, and mayhap others, but there be none else that will venture it, let the idle say what the idle will.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
Her bare, red arms were thrown out above her head in positions of exhaustion, something, mayhap, like those of a sated villain.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen View in context
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