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perfection
English
Etymology
From Old French perfection, from Latin perfecti?. Displaced native Old English fulfremednes.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /p??f?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
perfection (countable and uncountable, plural perfections)
- The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence
- A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
- No tongue can her perfections tell
Quotations
- 1784, William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others?;?which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
Synonyms
- faultlessness
- flawlessness
- impeccability
- infallibility
Translations
Verb
perfection (third-person singular simple present perfections, present participle perfectioning, simple past and past participle perfectioned)
- (obsolete, transitive) To perfect.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Foote to this entry?)
References
- perfection in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
From Latin perfecti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.f?k.sj??/
Noun
perfection f (uncountable)
- perfection
Derived terms
Related terms
- parfait
Further reading
- “perfection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Noun
perfection f (plural perfections)
- perfection
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fulth
English
Alternative forms
- fouth
Etymology
From Middle English fulth, fulthe, from Old English fylleþ (“fullness”, in compounds), from Proto-Germanic *fulliþ? (“fullness”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel?-, *pl?- (“to fill”); equivalent to full +? -th. Cognate with Middle High German vüllede (“fullness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?l?/
Noun
fulth (uncountable)
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Fullness; abundance; plenty.
- 1910, Thomas Hardy, "A Singer Asleep".
- 1911, John Payne (tr.), The Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine: Now First Completely Rendered Into English Verse, in Accordance with the Original Forms, Volume 3, page 134.
- 1952, Yorkshire Dialect Society, Summer Bulletin, page 18.
- 1910, Thomas Hardy, "A Singer Asleep".
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Fill; sufficiency; repletion; satiety.
- 1641, Henry Best, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, of Elmswell, in the East Riding of the County of York, in The Publications of the Surtees Society, publ. by George Andrews, 1857, pages 4 & 5.
- 1853, Michael Theakston, A List of Natural Flies that are Taken by Trout, Grayling, & Smelt, in the Streams of Ripon, W. Harrison (publ.), page 62.
- 1853, Michael Theakston, A List of Natural Flies that are Taken by Trout, Grayling, & Smelt, in the Streams of Ripon, W. Harrison (publ.), page 73.
- 1924, Yorkshire Dialect Society, Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, page 41.
- 1641, Henry Best, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, of Elmswell, in the East Riding of the County of York, in The Publications of the Surtees Society, publ. by George Andrews, 1857, pages 4 & 5.
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