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noun

Perfection n.

The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection.

A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence. "What tongue can her perfections tell?"

To perfection, in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection.

verb

Perfection v. t. To perfect. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Perfection" Quotes from Famous Books

... admirable specimen of a class of gentry which never can be seen in full perfection but in such places—they may be met with, in an imperfect state, occasionally about stable-yards and Public-houses; but they never attain their full bloom except in these hot-beds, which would almost seem to be considerately provided by the legislature ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... to-night—very gentle and womanly—more English than French or Russian, more American than either. Neither of them spoke for a long while. Such words as they could speak would have taken something from the perfection of their background. But Markham thought of her as he had frequently done, thankful again for the benefits of her regard, the genuineness of which she had brought home to him in ...

— Madcap • George Gibbs

... grow. I can undertake the sublime task, which they once undertook, the task of making our common brotherhood wiser and happier. I can build forward, where they were forced to leave off; and bring nearer to perfection the great edifice which they left uncompleted. And at length I, too, must leave it, and go hence. O, this is the sublimest thought of all! I can never finish the noble task; therefore, so sure as this task is my destiny, I can never cease to ...

— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... Degree of perfection in industry independent of zoological superiority—Mental faculties of the lower animals of like nature ...

— The Industries of Animals • Frederic Houssay

... a mere game of politics?" she said. "And politics resolves itself into brute force; and a murder more or less doesn't matter? Fordie, I suppose, would be classed as one of the scrubs sacrificed for this perfection ...

— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut

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