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Definition of To perfection
1. Adverb. In every detail. "The new house suited them to a T"
Lexicographical Neighbors of To Perfection
Literary usage of To perfection
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The other virtues therefore belong to perfection in a secondary and accidental
... Seculars are obliged to perfection by the observance of the precepts or ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Augustine, on the other band, maintained that grace is necessary to perfection,
and that, since sinlessness is impossible on earth, perfection can be ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"One can't fly it ; you must ' top,' and Nora can do that sort of thing to
perfection ; and as I came on I had to swerve a little to avoid some of the dogs ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"MARIA'S WAY to perfection From 'Marta y Maria ' ONE evening, after the retirement
of the family and servants, mistress and maid were together in Maria's ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"translation of Sir William Jones—seems to us to approach as near as possible to
perfection. Accurate and ample scholarship is displayed in every line of it. ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... to approximate so closely to perfection that any shortcoming may be disregarded.
In what is said above I refer, of course, to the refracting telescope, ..."
7. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap, Frank William Bayley, Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1918)
"... not singular in this practice, which by inducing the student to rely on others,
prevents that observation of nature, which can alone lead to perfection. ..."
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