perfection

  1. Noun.  The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, '''perfection''' in an art, in a science, or in a system; '''perfection''' in form or degree; fruits in '''perfection'''.
  2. Noun.  A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
  3. Noun.  To '''perfection''', in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to '''perfection'''.

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