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Definition of Mayhap
1. Adverb. By chance. "It may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"
Definition of Mayhap
1. adv. Perhaps; peradventure.
Definition of Mayhap
1. Adverb. (archaic) maybe, perhaps, possibly, perchance: ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mayhap
1. maybe [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mayhap
Literary usage of Mayhap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"mayhap you may be shame-faced ; some maidens, thof they love a man well enough,
yet they don't саге to tell 'n so to 's face. If that's the case, why, ..."
2. The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of MDCXXIII by William Shakespeare (1871)
"... could have looked on him only as the probable inheritor of his father's little
wealth, the possible recipient of his father's little honors, or mayhap, ..."
3. American Lands and Letters by Donald Grant Mitchell (1904)
"trained English servants are wanting; mayhap, too, there was a silent bemoaning
of the lack of Hawthorne in 1862. From a photograph taken by ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the by Richard Grant White (1866)
"... but in that commendation, "quality" may include play-writing as well as
play-acting; and mayhap it refers with some vagueness to both. ..."
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