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Perfectionist   Listen
noun
Perfectionist  n.  
1.
One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.
2.
A person who insists on perfect results from himself or from others, in any endeavor.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Perfectionist" Quotes from Famous Books



... out by force of contrast, which may be rather to the glory of the preaching than to its discredit. Say, however, all that can be said in this direction concerning the doctrine of Christian Perfection; the ideals of the Gospel for human living are no lower than the highest word the Perfectionist has ever uttered. These ideals, as put before us and required of us, are part of the message of the Cross, and the preaching which does not include and enforce them is incomplete and cannot become, in the highest sense, effective ...
— The Message and the Man: - Some Essentials of Effective Preaching • J. Dodd Jackson



Words linked to "Perfectionist" :   perfectionism



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