Word Meanings - UNPERFECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To mar or destroy the perfection of. Sir P. Sidney.
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- DESTROYABLE
Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham. - PERFECTIONAL
Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. Bp. Pearson. - PERFECTION
1. 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 - PERFECTIONMENT
The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection. I. Taylor. - PERFECTIONATE
To perfect. Dryden. - DESTROY
destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy - PERFECTIONISM
The doctrine of the Perfectionists. - DESTROYER
One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates. - PERFECTIONIST
One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life. South. - SELF-DESTROYER
One who destroys himself; a suicide. - TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat. - UNPERFECTION
Want of perfection; imperfection. Wyclif. - UNDESTROYABLE
Indestructible. - IMPERFECTION
The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish. Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. Shak. Syn. -- Defect; deficiency; incompleteness; fault; failing; weakness; - COMMERCE DESTROYER
A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.