Perfection

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  • noun. The quality or condition of being perfect.
  • noun. The act or process of perfecting.
  • noun. A person or thing considered to be perfect.
  • noun. An instance of excellence.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To complete; make perfect.
  • noun. Performance; accomplishment.
  • noun. The state of being perfect, as in material, form, design, composition, construction, operation, action, qualification, etc.; that degree of excellence which leaves nothing to be desired, or in which nothing requisite is wanting; entire freedom from defect, blemish, weakness, or liability to err or fail; supreme excellence, whether moral or material; completeness or thoroughness: as, perfection in an art; fruits in perfection; the perfection of beauty: often used concretely: as, she is perfection.
  • noun. A quality, trait, feature, endowment, or acquirement that is characterized by excellence or is of great worth or value; excellency.
  • noun. The extreme; the highest degree; consummation: as, the perfection of cruelty.
  • noun. In medieval music, triple rhythm or measure. See measure
  • noun. With the highest degree of excellence or success: as, he acted the part to perfection.
  • noun. Synonyms Perfectness, completion, consummation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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
  • noun. A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
  • noun. in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection.
  • transitive verb. To perfect.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
  • noun. To perfection, in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection.
  • verb. To perfect.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of making something perfect
  • noun. an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept
  • noun. the state of being without a flaw or defect
  • Word Usage
    "_The desire of happiness, ample and complete, beyond what this world can afford, is not planted in man by defect of his nature, but by the perfection of his nature, and in view of his further perfection_."
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