Imperfection
[ɪmpə'fekʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪmpɚ'fɛkʃən]
Definition
(a.) The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.
Typist: Lycurgus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Defect, fault, blemish, stain.[2]. Weakness, frailty, foible, failing, vice.
Typed by Greta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Deficiency, fault, failing, blemish, vice,[See {[DRIMP]?}]
Inputed by Franklin
Examples
- When you tell me to love him as a brother, I shall no more see imperfection in his face, than I now do in his heart. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Adeimantus objects first of all to the form of the Socratic reasoning, thus showing that Plato is aware of the imperfection of his own method. Plato. The Republic.
- It may be worth while to sum up the foregoing remarks on the causes of the imperfection of the geological record under an imaginary illustration. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He who rejects this view of the imperfection of the geological record, will rightly reject the whole theory. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The same imperfection attends our ideas of the Deity; but this can have no effect either on religion or morals. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The imperfection, or rather the higher and more elastic nature of language, does not allow words to have the precision of numbers or of symbols. Plato. The Republic.
- A remarkable instance of the imperfection of sight telegraphs occurred during the Peninsular War. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The above is only a rapid sketch of the total process, in which elaborate care is taken to prevent imperfection of any kind. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The noble science of geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- After all, the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Having felt in him the presence of these qualities, I felt his imperfection and took courage. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Of all the imperfections (not considering glaring cracks or nicks), carbon spots are the most discernible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The plate is then returned to the engraving department, which completes the work, burnishing darks, engraving highlights, removing slight imperfections and otherwise perfecting the plate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Like Shakespere, they were great in spite, not in consequence, of their imperfections of expression. Plato. The Republic.
- Do not think or speak of disparity between us, for there is none, except in all my many imperfections. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Yet the chief of these reasons may perhaps be refuted by the imperfections of the performance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Whenever a flash of reason darted like an electric light upon her lover--as it sometimes would--and showed his imperfections, she shivered thus. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The imperfections of his mind run parallel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It then receives further mechanical treatment to correct imperfections and finish its edges, and is finally mounted upon a block ready for the printer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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