perfection

plural perfections

1. countableuncountableThe quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence.

   near-perfection

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   total perfection

   aim for perfection

   lack perfection

   attain perfection

   be far off perfection

2. countableuncountableA quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.

   No tongue can her perfections tell

   The New Arcadia

   a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC

3. countableuncountablelawThe process or act of establishing official recognition for a legal claim, generally in the context of security interests.

present singular third person perfections · participle present perfectioning · participle past perfectioned · past perfectioned

1. nonstandardtransitiveuncommonTo perfect.

   Sooner I'd kneel unto the modern nine / Alike perfectioned, though a virgin's name / They cannot boast[…]

   1770, William Woty, Mock Invocation to Genius

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   My plan, gentlemen, is to be conſider'd as a ſuperſtructure on that admirable foundation laid by the modern profeſſor of Engliſh, both our labours tending to the ſame general end; the perfectioning of our countrymen in a moſt eſſential article, the right uſe of their native language.

   1762, [Samuel] Foote, The Orators. […], Dublin: […] Thomas Richey, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 10

   The most vain of the Assistants, she knows she's beautiful and let it know to the world. Acts like an ojousama and spends most of her time perfectioning her make-up.

   2001 December 3, OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol, “AHSM Storytellers, Profiles”, in alt.hentai.sailor-moon (Usenet)