Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A perfectionist; a perfectibilist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A perfectionist.
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- noun archaic A
perfectionist .
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Examples
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This is nowhere so evident as in the speculations of the astronomer Merrival, whose views seem ironically compounded of the most perfectibilian aspects of
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Condorcet, probably the most ardent “perfectibilian” of the century, vigorously supported the view that progress occurs in the fine arts.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968
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