perceant

English

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Etymology

From Middle French perçant, from percer (“to pierce”).

Adjective

perceant (comparative more perceant, superlative most perceant)

  1. (now rare, archaic) Piercing, sharp. [from 14th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.10:
      wondrous quick and persant was his spright, / As Eagles eye, that can behold the Sunne [...].

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