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Definition of Perfectiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfectiveness
Literary usage of Perfectiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New System of Phrenology by James Stanley Grimes (1839)
"perfectiveness, OR IDEALITY. Beautiful! How beautiful is all this visible world!
How glorious in its action and itself!—Byron. When this organ was first ..."
2. Problems of Creation by James Stanley Grimes (1881)
"Strike the sub-creator from existence, and the creature will be annihilated also.
perfectiveness CONTINUED. ORIGIN OF THE FINE ARTS. ..."
3. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1879)
"Now, perfectiveness is connotative; for the Perfective connotes the Perfectible.
... perfectiveness, therefore, enters into the formal concept of Goodness; ..."
4. Phreno-geology: The Progressive Creation of Man, Indicated by Natural by James Stanley Grimes (1851)
"But it would be absurd to suppose that the organ of perfectiveness itself ...
The organ of perfectiveness grows out of the top of Constructiveness, and is, ..."
5. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"perfectiveness, PRETTINESS, PERFECTING AND BEAUTIFYING NATURE, CONCEIT, ...
perfectiveness is the susceptibility to the beautiful, and a propensity to ..."
6. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health (1840)
"... "perfectiveness" and "Hopefulness," without either necessity or usefulness to
justify the change, and therefore, as we conceive, on indefensible ground. ..."
7. Lessons in Scholastic Philosophy by Michael Shallo (1916)
"... its goodness, a perfectiveness, in regard to another. The various ways in
which a thing may be relatively good will give us the divisions of goodness in ..."
8. The Near and the Heavenly Horizons by Valérie Boissier de Gasparin, Catherine Valérie (Boissier) Gasparin (1871)
"You speak to me of development, perfectiveness. I protest to you that I am
indifferent to them. Let me grow ever so perfect here below, it will be labour ..."
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