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comparative more perlous, superlative most perlous
Obsolete form of perilous. quotations examples
Ne would for price or prayers once affoordTo ferry that old man over that perlous foord.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 19