different between wretchedness vs peril

English

Etymology

wretched +? -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t??dn?s/
• Hyphenation: wretch?ed?ness

Noun

wretchedness (usually uncountable, plural wretchednesses)

1. An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 3

     She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.

2. A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English peril, from Old French peril, from Latin per?culum. Doublet of periculum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???l/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?p???l/
• Rhymes: -???l, -???l

Noun

peril (countable and uncountable, plural perils)

1. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
2. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.

   The perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc)

3. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.

Synonyms

• danger, hazard, jeopardy, risk, threat, wathe
• See also Thesaurus:danger

Derived terms

• yellow peril
• imperil

Related terms

• perilous

Translations

Verb

peril (third-person singular simple present perils, present participle periling or perilling, simple past and past participle periled or perilled)

1. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk. [from 16th c.]
   • 1830, Robert Hayne, Speech in the United States Senate:

     And are we, Mr. President, who stood by our country then, who threw open our coffers, who bared our bosoms, who freely perilled all in that conflict, to be reproached with want of attachment to the Union?

   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. XIV:

     "I will have nothing to do with this matter, whatever it is. Do you think I am going to peril my reputation for you?"

Anagrams

• piler, plier, prile

Middle English

Alternative forms

• perile, periil, perel, peryle, pereyl, parelle, peryl, perell, perill, parell, pereil

Etymology

From Old French peril, from Latin per?culum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ril/, /p??ri?l/, /?p?r?l/, /?par?l/

Noun

peril (plural perilles)

1. Danger, risk, peril; something that is potentially harmful or risky:
   1. A location where danger, risk, or peril is present or likely.
   2. A thing or enterprise which creates peril; anything which creates or which is of peril.
   3. Sinfulness; religious threat or danger.
2. (Late Middle English) Bad fortune; unluckiness or mischance.

Related terms

• perilous
• perilously

Descendants

• English: peril
• Scots: peril

References

• “per??l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin per?culum.

Noun

peril m (oblique plural periz or perilz, nominative singular periz or perilz, nominative plural peril)

1. peril; hazard; danger

Descendants

• ? Middle English: peril
  • English: peril
  • Scots: peril
• French: péril
• Norman: péthi (Jersey)