Adjective: peregrine
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more peregrine |
| Superlative | most peregrine |
Sample Sentences
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The Romani are perpetually peregrine people.
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peregrine and preternatural heat [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
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As soon as she had smiled her face altered again, and the petulant expression peregrine to her features took control. [1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan:]
Adjectives inflected like peregrine
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English peregrin, borrowed from Old French peregrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreign”). Doublet of pilgrim. See: Latin Adjectives '
peregrīnus'.
Verbs referencing "peregrine"
Italian Adjectives
pellegrino.