Perfectibility
[pә,fekti'biliti]
Definition
(noun.) the capability of becoming perfect; 'he believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man'.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being perfectible.
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Examples
- Like the ancients in general, he had no idea of the gradual perfectibility of man or of the education of the human race. Plato. The Republic.
- I took in all the new ideas at one time--human perfectibility, now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There is nothing more detestable than that society horror, a beauty man, who resembles a wax figure in his unnatural perfectibility of face and form. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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