Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making perfect, or the state of being perfect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection.
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- noun The act of bringing to
perfection . - noun The state of having attained perfection.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The very fulfillment and perfectionment attainable by souls cannot but be different.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Intuition, in the final finish and perfectionment of the Integral Speech of Mankind, the Artistic.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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We may suppose, rather, that the influence upon family life will be in the direction of its perfectionment.
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At length he went so far as to maintain that the Cabala was not so much a branch of mathematics as the metaphysical perfectionment of mathematics.
Casanova's Homecoming Arthur Schnitzler 1896
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Mr Verloc did not trouble his head about it, his mission in life being the protection of the social mechanism, not its perfectionment or even its criticism.
The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale Joseph Conrad 1890
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Self-perfectionment is the means of salvation, not the vicarious sufferings of a Redeemer.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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a perfectionment of the Authentic Being, though in the truth it is a diminution; the produced thing is deficient by the very addition, by being less simplex, by standing one step away from the Authentic.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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