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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who believes in any form of perfectionism.
  • noun Specifically [capitalized] A member of the Oneida Community. See community. Also called Bible Communist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who has a propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards

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