It takes Sharp four hours to get into character: “I take joy in the mathematical, symmetrical precision and perfectness of Bach.”
Mrs. Fern wished no harm to Edwin but she would have been glad to shift her burden of perfectness to other shoulders.
Little girl, our ways have been the ways of perfectness and peace.
And man will then attain unto the blessedness of perfectness and be at one with God.
He who aims for perfectness in a trifle is trying to do that trifle holily.
"God is love;" and reciprocal love constitutes "the bond of perfectness" between God and rational creatures.
Tell them "above all things to put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness."
We then say that the classic does not satisfy us, and that the "Grecian cloys us with his perfectness."
He was not litigious, but there was no evading the perfectness of his contracts.
So, then, He who has created the soul will bring it to perfectness.
early 15c. alteration of Middle English parfit (c.1300), from Old French parfit "finished, completed, ready" (11c.), from Latin perfectus "completed, excellent, accomplished, exquisite," past participle of perficere "accomplish, finish, complete," from per- "completely" (see per) + facere "to perform" (see factitious). Often used in English as an intensive (perfect stranger, etc.).
"to bring to full development," late 14c., parfiten, from perfect (adj.). Related: Perfected; perfecting.