perfection
[per-fek-shuh n]
- the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
- the highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some art.
- a perfect embodiment or example of something.
- a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence.
- the highest or most nearly perfect degree of a quality or trait.
- the act or fact of perfecting.
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Origin of perfection
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Examples from the Web for perfection
Contemporary Examples
But whereas we used to be satisfied gazing on that perfection as it stood up on a pedestal, now we want it down among us.
Bow Down, Bitches: How Beyoncé Turned an Elevator Brawl Into a Perfect YearKevin Fallon
December 31, 2014
It was a reminder that, as Beyoncé once sang, “Perfection is the disease of a nation,” and her family is hardly flawless.
How a workable civilization is less about perfection and more about strict zoning.
Jay Z and Beyoncé had a reputation built on perfection, and now that reputation is experiencing fast and furious trauma.
The romantic solution deified our lovers so that we have become purged “through a perfect consummation with perfection itself.”
Historical Examples
Her costume had about it an indubitable air, a finality of perfection in its kind.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
Unless it be to think that she is by And feed upon the shadow of perfection.
The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
At forty if a man chooses to assume the role of Orlando he does it to perfection.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
It gives grace, it is perfection, which has only need to show itself to conquer.
The DreamEmile Zola
Stables and neat-houses were the perfection of cleanliness and airiness.
In the Heart of VosgesMatilda Betham-Edwards
perfection
- the act of perfecting or the state or quality of being perfect
- the highest degree of a quality, etcthe perfection of faithfulness
- an embodiment of perfection
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Word Origin
C13: from Latin perfectiō a completing, from perficere to finish
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Word Origin and History for perfection
n.
early 13c., from Old French perfection "perfection, completeness" (12c.), from Latin perfectionem (nominative perfectio) "a finishing, compling, perfection," noun of action from past participle stem of perficere (see perfect (adj.)).
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