Meanings
adverbmayhaps (not comparable)
- not comparableMaybe; perhaps; possibly; perchance.
“There, below us -- a gathering of fluffy people! Mayhaps they've seen your Father! Marceline, release the Finn bomb!”
2010 October 11, Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar, “It Came from the Nightosphere” (4:06 from the start), in Adventure Time, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Finn the Human (Jeremy Shada)1 more example
“The kindly man chuckled. “He is a man like any other, with light in him and darkness. It is not for you to judge him.” That gave her pause. “Have the gods judged him?” “Some gods, mayhaps. What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men?"
2011, George R. R. Martin, “The Ugly Little Girl”, in A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire; 5), London: Voyager Books, published 2019, →ISBN, page 975
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