Meanings
adverbpercase (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoletePerchance; perhaps.
[A] vertuous man vvill be vertuous in ſolitudine, and not onely in theatro, though percaſe it vvill bee more ſtrong by glory and Fame, as an heat vvhich is doubled by reflexion: […]
1597, Francis [Bacon], “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, →OCLC
Origin
- Middle Englishper cas
- Englishpercase
From Middle English per cas. See parcase.
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APA
percase. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/percase
MLA
“percase.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/percase. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “percase,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/percase.
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