"perill" meaning in English

See perill in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: perills [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} perill (countable and uncountable, plural perills)
  1. Obsolete spelling of peril. Tags: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Alternative form of: peril
    Sense id: en-perill-en-noun-VhwQ0x5K Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 41 35 14 10
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "perills",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "perill (countable and uncountable, plural perills)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "peril"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 35 14 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 51:",
          "text": "For if that bee not without much hazard and perill,[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1709, William Guthrie, A Sermon Concerning Regeneration Preached in Clydsdale, page 27:",
          "text": "What is the Duty and Vertue oppoſite to this ill which Men are to ſtudy in an ill time upon their perill and prepare for.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1715, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, volume 3, Book II, page 65:",
          "text": "[…] but ſithence that theſe Thinges, althoughe in their outward Viſage be worldly, yet inwardly they touch and concerne the Perill of Soule,[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of peril."
      ],
      "id": "en-perill-en-noun-VhwQ0x5K",
      "links": [
        [
          "peril",
          "peril#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "perill"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old French",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "perills",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "perill (countable and uncountable, plural perills)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "peril"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English obsolete forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 51:",
          "text": "For if that bee not without much hazard and perill,[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1709, William Guthrie, A Sermon Concerning Regeneration Preached in Clydsdale, page 27:",
          "text": "What is the Duty and Vertue oppoſite to this ill which Men are to ſtudy in an ill time upon their perill and prepare for.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1715, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, volume 3, Book II, page 65:",
          "text": "[…] but ſithence that theſe Thinges, althoughe in their outward Viſage be worldly, yet inwardly they touch and concerne the Perill of Soule,[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of peril."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "peril",
          "peril#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "perill"
}

Download raw JSONL data for perill meaning in English (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.