But wene ye that every wrecche woot 890 The parfit blisse of love?
Nay, doutelees, for also god me save, So parfit Ioye may no nigard have!
Bot he, which Pite hath parfit Upon the point of his believe, The poeple thoghte to relieve, And ches himselve to be ded.
It makth mulptiplicacioun Of gold, and the fixacioun It causeth, and of his habit He doth the werk to be parfit Of thilke Elixer which men calle Alconomie, as is befalle To hem that whilom weren wise.
Wherof the parfit of here lawe Fro thanne forth hem was withdrawe, So that thei stonde of no merit, Bot in truage as folk soubgit Withoute proprete of place Thei liven out of goddes grace, Dispers in alle londes oute.
Parfit smelled smoke," said Clive hurriedly, anxious to get back to his task.
He slipped down the length of the dormitory while Parfit was thanking him, and swiftly pulled the door open.
Naturally timid at the thought of disturbing so august a person as the head prefect of his dormitory, Parfit quaked as Clive rolled over on to his other side and snored.
Clive was out of his bed like a shot, and getting into his dressing-gown and slippers before Parfit could believe it.
He seemed to have been giving directions for an age, whereas from the commencement, when Parfit had wakened him, till this moment, but very few minutes had elapsed.
Diverse scoles maken parfit clerkes; Divers praktyk in many sondry werkes Maketh the werkman parfit sekirly; Of fyve housbondes scolering am I.
Thrice had he fought with sharp lances in the lists, and thrice had he slain his foe; yet he was Of his port as meke as is a mayde; He never yet no vilainie ne sayde In all his life unto ne manere wight, He was a very parfit gentil knight.
He was ther-with fulfild of gentillesse, Of honour, and of parfit worthinesse.
That hadde y-lad of dong ful many a fother, 530 A trewe swinker and a good was he, Livinge in pees and parfit charitee.
This is al and som, he heeld virginitee More parfit than wedding in freletee.
Of werk than any fair creacioun 870 Of swich a parfit wys god and a stable, Why han ye wroght this werk unresonable?
For nature hath nat take his beginning Of no partye ne cantel of a thing, (2150) But of a thing that parfit is and stable, Descending so, til it be corrumpable.
Now shaltow understande what is bihovely and necessarie to verray parfit Penitence.
Crist was a mayde, and shapen as a man, And many a seint, sith that the world bigan, 140 Yet lived they ever in parfit chastitee.
And Iesu, for his grace, wit me sende To shewe yow the wey, in this viage, Of thilke parfit glorious pilgrimage 50 That highte Ierusalem celestial.
For sith that al the body is the housbondes, so sholde hir herte been, or elles ther is bitwixe hem two, as in that, no parfit mariage.
What nedeth him that hath a parfit leche To sechen othere leches in the toun?
But, if thou mightest parfit pees attayne, Ther shulde be no cause for to playne.
A litel misgoing in the ginning causeth mikil errour in the ende; wherfore of thilke blisse thou fayledest, for having of richesse; ne non of the other thinges thou nempnedest mowen nat make suche parfit blisse in love as I shal 30 shewe.
Wherfore, if thou desyre this blisse in parfit joye, thou must sette thy purpos there vertue foloweth, and not to loke after the bodily goodes; as I sayd whan thou were wryting in thy seconde boke.
I; 'it nedeth not of this no rehersayle to make; my soule is yet in parfit blisse, in thinking of 160 that knotte!
Ye armen your servauntes ayenst al debates with imperciable harneys; ye setten in her hertes insuperable blood of 45 hardinesse; ye leden hem to the parfit good.
Parfit science, in good service, of their desyre to comprehende in bodily doinge the lykinge of the soule; not as by a glasse to have contemplacion of tyme cominge, but thilke first imagined and thought after face to face in beholding.
And what is more glorie or more joye than wysdom and love inparfit charite, whiche god hath graunted to al tho that wel +conne deserve?
John Parfit had answered her letter by return, and he had succeeded in fully living up to his ideal of what was “sport.
Then Mr. Parfit appeared in the light of a provider of amusements.
Mr. Parfit had a fatherly way with him, and though his culture was crude and raw, he had a shrewd outlook upon things in general that was not unamusing.
She told Mr. Parfit that she would be spending Christmas quite alone.
She had not seen Mr. Parfit since the loss of her secretaryship, in fact, not since Christmas, the morning walks to Highbury Corner having become unnecessary.
They started off together with a tacit acceptance of the situation, Mr. Parfitshowing an elaborate politeness in taking the outside of the pavement.
She found that John Parfithad to use his handkerchief, and that he became thick in the throat.
Every evening a bunch of flowers, roses, violets, or carnations, was brought up to her, John Parfit leaving them at Bosnia Road on his way home from the City.
A tremulous something about her mouth, the droop of her neck, the light on her hair, stirred in John Parfit an inarticulate compassion.
A feminine atmosphere had always rendered John Parfit nervous and inarticulate.
When John Parfit had gone, Eve lay back in her chair with a feeling of intense languor.
Ac the parchemyn of this patente Of poverte be moste, And of pure pacience, And parfit bileve.
So that povre pacient Is parfitest lif of alle, And alleparfit preestes To poverte sholde drawe.
Job the parfit patriarch This proverbe wrot and tauhte, To makye a man lovye mesure, That monkes beeth and freeres.
Ther parfit truthe and poore herte is, And pacience of tonge, Ther is Charite the chief chaumbrere For God hymselve.
Wiser than Salomon was Bereth witnesse and taughte That parfit poverte was No possession to have, 7110 And lif moost likynge to God, As Luc bereth witnesse: Si vis perfectus esse, vade et vende.
And is to mene to men That on this moolde lyven, Who so wole be pure parfit Moot possession forsake, Or selle it, as seith the Book, And the silver dele To beggeris that goon and begge 7120 And bidden good for Goddes love.
For thilke thing that simply is o thing, with-outen any devisioun, the errour and folye of mankinde departeth and devydeth it, and misledeth it and transporteth from verray and parfit good to goodes that 15 ben false and unparfit.
Thou drawest al thing of 10 thy soverein ensaumpler, and comaundest that this world, parfitliche y-maked, have freely and absolut hisparfit parties.
Certes, resoun sheweth that god is so good, that it proveth by verray force that parfit good is in him.
But it were rather an opinioun Uncerteyn, and no stedfast forseinge; And certes, that were an abusioun, 990 That god shuld han no parfit cleer witinge More than we men that han doutous weninge.
Eternitee, thanne, is parfit possessioun and al-togidere of lyf 10 interminable; and that sheweth more cleerly by the comparisoun or the collacioun of temporel thinges.
And 15 whanne he hath y-doon ther y-nough, he shal forleten the laste hevene, and he shal pressen and wenden on the bak of the swifte firmament, and he shal ben maked parfit of the worshipful light of god.
Now is it cleer and certein thanne, that blisfulnesse is a parfit estat by the congregacioun of alle goodes; the whiche blisfulnesse, as I have seyd, alle mortal folk enforcen hem to geten by diverse weyes.
For glad is that coniunccioun, Whan ther is noon suspecioun [Ne lak in hem], whom they wolde prove That trew and parfit weren in love.
Yit shulde he selle al his substaunce, 6595 And with his swink have sustenaunce, If he be parfit in bountee.
And then Parfit was washing up the dishes in the scullery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parfit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
