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- noun The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever
imperfect
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Examples
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He had fallen into a deep cynicism over what had crossed his path, plotted the imperfectability of man and read Shaw and
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He had fallen into a deep cynicism over what had crossed his path, plotted the imperfectability of man and read Shaw and Chesterton enough to keep his mind from the edges of decadence -- now suddenly all his mental processes of the last year and
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Sixth, conservatives are chastened by their principle of imperfectability
GraniteGrok 2008
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He had fallen into a deep cynicism over what had crossed his path, plotted the imperfectability of man and read Shaw and Chesterton enough to keep his mind from the edges of decadencenow suddenly all his mental processes of the last year and a half seemed stale and futilea petty consummation of himself ... and like a sombre background lay that incident of the spring before, that filled half his nights with a dreary terror and made him unable to pray.
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