imperfectible
adjective
that cannot be perfected.
imperfectibility
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a word derived from
imperfectible.
Example Sentences
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He has no quarrel with readers who complain that his magazine often dwells, in classic conservative fashion, on "the imperfectibility of man and the failure of his grand designs."
From Time Magazine Archive
The democrat, who believed in the practical necessity of compromise and who acknowledged the innate imperfection and imperfectibility of man, had a creed of his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
The imperfectibility of all empirical science, and the boundlessness of the sphere of observation, render the task of explaining the forces of matter by that which is variable in matter, an impracticable one.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson
From a materialistic stand-point this assumption of imperfectibility inevitably runs into the reductio ad absurdum.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
