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Definition of Perfectionists
1. perfectionist [n] - See also: perfectionist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfectionists
Literary usage of Perfectionists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Communistic Societies of the United States: From Personal Visit and by Charles Nordhoff (1875)
"... there appear to have been small gatherings of " perfectionists " in other
states, in correspondence with Noyes, and inclined to take him as their leader ..."
2. First Century of National Existence: The United States as They Were and are by James Thatcher Hodge (1875)
"I. FREE LOVERS, BIBLE COMMUNISTS or perfectionists, a small American sect founded
... Another and more numerous sect of perfectionists, though, perhaps, ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The perfectionists had a peculiar theory of the sexual relations which they called
complex marriage, and the marriage contract was regarded a. ..."
4. Applied socialism: a study of the application of socialistic principles to by John Spargo (1912)
"... the Adamites and the Brothers and Sisters of Free Spirit; and of the perfectionists
of Oneida and similar sects in our own time. ..."
5. Voices of Perfectionism: Perfectionistic Gifted Adolescents in a Rural by Patricia A. Schuler (2000)
"Healthy perfectionists had intense desires for order and organization in their
lives, yet were able to accept their mistakes. They had confidence in their ..."
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