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noun

Perfection n.

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?"

To perfection, in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection.

verb

Perfection v. t. To perfect. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Perfection'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Perfection" Quotes from Famous Books

... working as nearly to perfection as it could be brought, and Tom, after finding out that his craft would answer equally well as a dirigible balloon or an aeroplane, let it sail along ...

— Tom Swift and his Air Glider - or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure • Victor Appleton

... chair by the window,—she obeyed, and glanced about her shyly, yet curiously. The room was not untidy, as she expected it would be without a woman's hand to set it in order,—on the contrary it was the perfection of neatness and cleanliness. Her gaze was quickly attracted by the bowl of perpetually moving fluid in ...

— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli

... was very fine, the season advanced, for the foliage was rapidly developing to perfection, and the sail down the ...

— True Love's Reward • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... you'll all break your hearts about it. Mother met the gentleman at a party the other night. She says he looks clever, but isn't at all handsome, which is a pity, for Mrs. Florence is a raving beauty in my opinion. He's an excellent preacher, we hear; and won't she manage the parish to perfection? How shall you like being left to the tender mercies of Mrs. Nipson?' Now did you ever hear any thing so droll in your life?" went on Rose, folding up her letter. "Just think of those two things coming together the same day! It's like a sum in arithmetic, ...

— What Katy Did At School • Susan Coolidge

... when her beauty was at its fullest perfection, she heard all the flowers about her bending and whispering with rustling and murmuring, saying, "Who will be ...

— Bimbi • Louise de la Ramee

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