perfect
adjective
matching in every detail the definition of an ideal type of something.
self-perfecting
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a word derived from
perfect.
Example Sentences
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But he saw the material of happiness ahead, in the faithful execution of his resolves for self-perfecting.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
For not Mankind only, but all that Mankind does or beholds, is in continual growth, re-genesis and self-perfecting vitality.
From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle
As for doctrine, philosophic Buddhism with its dogmas of salvation through intellectual enlightenment, by means of self-perfecting, with its goal of absorption into Nirvana, has doubtless been the belief and aim of the few.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
