perfection

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being perfect.
  2. noun The act or process of perfecting: Perfection of the invention took years.
  3. noun A person or thing considered to be perfect.
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  • The choir of nuns were utter ethereal in their beauty - the service in Slavonic perfection. —  Teologie pentru azi
  • We Muslim men must take a stand against violence to reach the stage of perfection, which is well defined by the prophet Muhammad "The best of you is best to his wife".
  • Therefore the path to perfection is to follow Jesus, to be united with Him as the spouse becomes united with his bride in the nuptial sacrament, promising to be faithful always and with an undivided heart. —  Latest Articles
  • The Middle Ages had inherited a direct succession of harmonious forms, one rising out of another until the perfection was attained. —  The Story of Rouen
  • To those who view the supreme end of life as moral perfection, the thought of that perfection is the constant inner companion. —  The Essentials of Spirituality
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  1. from Middle English perfection, perfeccyone, perfeccioun, perfecciun, from Old French (and F.) perfection = Spanish perfection = Portuguese perfeição = Italian perfezione, from Latin perfectio(n-), a finishing, perfection, from perficere, past participle perfectus, finish, complete: see perfect.
  2. from French perfectionner = Spanish perfeccionar = Portuguese perfecionar, perfeiçoar = Italian perfezionare; from the noun.
 

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/pərˈfɛkʃən/
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