adv. Obs. or dial. Also 4 auntre, 5 aventurs, awnturs, 9 anters. [f. aunter, aventure, ADVENTURE: the -s (orig. wanting) seems to be genitival, and the word parallel to the contemporary of aventure; cf. also per adventure (in ME. paraunter) and the later per-hap-s.]
† a. At a venture, at all risks, in any case, at all events. Obs. b. Peradventure, perhaps.
c. 1325. Cæur de L., 3878. Auntre, they swore hym hool oth To be hys men.
a. 1450. Syr Eglamore, 1211. The chylde … Was aventurs in the felde. Ibid., 213. For oon the beste knyghtes art thou, That in thys londe ys levyd now, Awnturs [Other MSS. owther] ferre or nere.
1691. Ray, N. Countr. Wds., 4. Aunters, Peradventure, or, in case, if it chance.
1807. J. Stagg, Poems, 54. Or anters in yon mouldering heap, Some luivelier female form I weep.
