[ UK /pəfˈɛkʃən/ ]
[ US /pɝˈfɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being without a flaw or defect
  2. the act of making something perfect
  3. an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept
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How To Use perfection In A Sentence

  • There's nothing at all wrong with a bit of human imperfection here and there.
  • The King looked at him and seeing him to be yet comelier than his daughter and goodlier than she in stature and proportion and brightness and perfection, said to him, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • In today's society, the goal of obtaining physical perfection is quite common.
  • The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass. Brittany & Its Byways
  • When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • Close inspection makes one marvel at the intricate perfection of nature opposed to the finest fashion houses.
  • A spider web, revealing its geometric perfection, hung half across one corner of the rude casement; the moonbeams without were individualized in fine filar delicacy, like the ravellings of a silver skein. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
  • Some people are perfectionists, constantly striving for excellence.
  • With an intellectual's perfectionism, he cannot bring himself to face his desires in real life.
  • The white flakes do not exhibit the true conchoidal fracture in such perfection elsewhere; nor break off in such delicious morsels, edged with delicate brown. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
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