Word Meanings - PERFECTIBILIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2.

ILLUMINATI
Literally, those who are enlightened; -- variously applied as follows: -
ILLUMINATING
Giving or producing light; used for illumination. Illuminating gas. See Gas, n., 2 .
ILLUMINATISM
Illuminism.
ILLUMINATION
The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration. Hymns and psalms . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired. Hooker. (more info) 1. The act of illuminating, or supplying
ILLUMINATIVE
Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative. "Illuminative reading." Carlyle.
PERFECTIONIST
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. South.
REILLUMINATION
The act or process of enlightening again.