Definition of Imperfectability

1. Noun. The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperfectability

impercipient
imperdible
imperence
imperences
imperf
imperfect flower
imperfect indicative
imperfect rhyme
imperfect rhymes
imperfect subjunctive
imperfect tense
imperfectability (current term)
imperfectibility
imperfectible
imperfection
imperfections
imperfective
imperfective aspect
imperfectively
imperfectiveness
imperfectives
imperfectivization
imperfectivizations
imperfectly
imperfectness
imperfectnesses

Literary usage of Imperfectability

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the United States by Edward Channing (1908)
"The Dutch and the English had no scruples against supplying the Indians with rum or even with firearms, and considering the imperfectability of human nature ..."

2. Defense Policy in the Reagan Administration edited by William P. Snyder, James Brown (1997)
"But, arguments that focus on the imperfectability of an active defense, aside from being irrational, ignore the larger contribution that defense can make to ..."

3. The Principles of Money by James Laurence Laughlin (1903)
"Since this may be a natural result of improvements, why was this risk not foreseen ? If an understanding of the imperfectability of a standard of deferred ..."

4. A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1821)
"The originals must, in the lapse of a few centuries, perish from the imperfectability of their materials : the copies will continue to be fresh and vigorous ..."

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