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perfections

n. (plural of perfection English)

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Never was an actress found who could replace her, and to find one it would be necessary that she should unite in herself all the perfections which Silvia possessed for the difficult profession of the stage: action, voice, intelligence, wit, countenance, manners, and a deep knowledge of the human heart.

She was too well made as a woman ever to pass for a man, and the women who disguise themselves in male attire, and boast of being like men, are very wrong, for by such a boast they confess themselves deficient in one of the greatest perfections appertaining to woman.

The new impulse given to the French nation may open new and unexpected horizons, and new beauties, fresh perfections, may spring up from new combinations and from new wants.

I can only accuse all the perfections which Heaven has bestowed upon you!

Campioni, a celebrated Venetian dancer, imparted to the lovely Ancilla all the graces and the talents of which her physical perfections were susceptible, and married her.

Noir said nothing of all this, it was easy to see that in his own way he admired her perfections no less than I.

They praised the by-gone things, they took a sentimental, childish delight in the achieved perfections of the past.

Ideas and forever unattainable Perfections utterly beyond human reach.