perfectible
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonperfectibility noun
- nonperfectible adjective
- perfectibilist noun
- perfectibility noun
- self-perfectibility noun
- unperfectible adjective
Etymology
Origin of perfectible
1625–35; < French < Medieval Latin perfectibilis. See perfect, -ible
Example Sentences
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There is a belief among many of these folks that human nature is, if not maybe perfectible, that there's a kind of openness, what bell hooks talks about as revolutionary love.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2022
It was not that we saw ourselves as infinitely perfectible.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2017
The story at the center of American identity—that of a perfectible, perpetual Union—was impossibly utopian 240 years ago.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2014
He knew he and his nation lived in twilight, and that nothing was perfect nor perfectible.
From Time • Feb. 15, 2014
All Mankind seemed perfectible & we had Painters & Poets & we were indeed Lords of Matter, all number’d cleanly & meetly.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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