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Pronunciation
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Noun
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- 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.
- A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
#:What tongue can her perfections tell? -Sir P. Sidney
- To perfection, in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection.
Quotations
1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., P<small>REFACE</small>
Translations
trans-top|being perfect
Czech: dokonalost f
German: Vollkommenheit f
Hebrew: he-translation|�שת���ת|hishtalmoot
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Spanish: perfección f
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