Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who perfects, completes, or finishes; one who makes perfect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, makes perfect.
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- adjective
comparative form ofperfect : moreperfect - noun A person who
perfects something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a skilled worker who perfects something
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Examples
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Next to him in importance stands Pierre Franco (about 1560), known as the perfecter of the operation of lithotomy and that for hernia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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"perfecter," but to the monk passively as one who is "perfected": and one needs to be perfect in order to bring others to perfection, but not in order to be brought to perfection.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Said college athlete Hayden: "That could not have worked out any perfecter."
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: (Mala)Props to the Houseguests. 2010
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Said college athlete Hayden: "That could not have worked out any perfecter."
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : (Mala)Props to the Houseguests. 2010
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I bet if we throw truck-loads of money at a perfect film we could make it even perfecter.
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“Let us run with endurance … fixing our eyes on JESUS, the author and perfecter of our faith.”
Archive 2007-02-01 Heidi Hess Saxton 2007
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But he was also alluding to Acts 3: 15 (“You killed the author of life”) and Hebrews 12: 2 (“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith”).
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“Let us run with endurance … fixing our eyes on JESUS, the author and perfecter of our faith.”
Authentic Catholic Womanhood Heidi Hess Saxton 2007
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But he was also alluding to Acts 3: 15 (“You killed the author of life”) and Hebrews 12: 2 (“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith”) ...
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Heb 12:2: Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
The 100 most popular bible verses on BibleGateway.com Suzanne 2009
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