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/pərfˈɛkʃənəst/ /pərfˈɛkʃənɪst/ Listen

noun

Perfectionist n.

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.

A person who insists on perfect results from himself or from others, in any endeavor.

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Etymology of 'Perfectionist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Perfectionist" Quotes from Famous Books

... that. The only difficulty in our day is why any man should have any difficulty about his own indwelling sin at all. But neither Beattie, nor Rutherford, nor any of the masters who remain to us had got so far as we. And as for the Antinomian, perfectionist, and higher-life preachers of that day, they are all so dead and forgotten that you would not know their names even if I repeated them. Beattie, as a beginner in the spiritual life, had made this still not uncommon mistake. ...

— Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents • Alexander Whyte

... man simply the developing to the utmost of all the capacities which he possesses. There are men rich in the possibilities of sloth, of indifference to future good, of egoism, even of malignant feeling. Nor does the average man furnish the pattern of perfection. The perfectionist does not regard the average man as the embodiment of his ideal. ...

— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton