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Perfectionist   Listen
noun
Perfectionist  n.  
1.
One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.
2.
A person who insists on perfect results from himself or from others, in any endeavor.





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"Perfectionist" Quotes from Famous Books



... man simply the developing to the utmost of all the capacities which he possesses. There are men rich in the possibilities of sloth, of indifference to future good, of egoism, even of malignant feeling. Nor does the average man furnish the pattern of perfection. The perfectionist does not regard the average man as the embodiment of his ideal. ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton


Words linked to "Perfectionist" :   perfectionism, perfection


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