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Definition of Imperfectibility
1. Noun. The capability of becoming imperfect.
Derivative terms: Imperfectible
Antonyms: Perfectibility
Definition of Imperfectibility
1. n. The state or quality of being imperfectible.
Definition of Imperfectibility
1. Noun. The state or quality of being imperfectible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperfectibility
Literary usage of Imperfectibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life, Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus (1880)
"From a materialistic standpoint this assumption of imperfectibility inevitably
... Hut these adherents of inherent imperfectibility instance the fact of ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1825)
"... has recently elevated and invigorated the Greek nation, as contrasted with
the * stationary imperfectibility,' as it is somewhat affectedly called, ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1868)
"... in the most perfect form compatible with the inherent imperfectibility of all
human things. For a while only, however, and that but a brief one. ..."
4. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1905)
"... the more fatally that stamp of inferiority is affixed to its sons, and
irrevocably dooms them to eternal imperfectibility and degradation. ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1849)
"... therefore, returned to his quiet home, there to awaken in due time to a full
sense of his own delinquencies; to marvel at the imperfectibility of man, ..."
6. The Methodist Review (1873)
"The Methodist is according to the age, the Episcopalians live in another age—a
past age—the Unitarians expatiate in the imperfectibility of the ideal future ..."
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