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Unperfect

Unperfect \Un*per"fect\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + perfect.] To mar or destroy the perfection of. [Obs.]
--Sir P. Sidney.

Unperfect

Unperfect \Un*per"fect\, a. [Pref. un- + perfect.] Imperfect. [Obs.]
--Holland. -- Un*per"fect*ly, adv. [Obs.]
--Hales. -- Un*per"fect*ness, n. [Obs.]

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unperfect
  1. imperfect v

  2. (context transitive English) To mar or destroy the perfection of.

Usage examples of "unperfect".

Like an unperfect prologue, at third music, His part of speeches, and confederate jests, In passion to himself.

He had frequently illustrated his verses with drawings, in which an unperfect anatomy did not altogether hide extreme beauty of feeling.

I had not known you as such an unperfect actor on the stage, who with his fear is put besides his part.

Her heart was beating a wild, uneven tempo, and as clueless as she was to what she was doing, it was nonetheless exciting in a bad girl, very unperfect way.

He shows us what it meant to put aside the inheritances and relationships of an immemorial order and to stand as a little child untaught, undisciplined and unperfect in the presence of the new.

His secrecy regarding the antitoxin they deemed quite justifiable, since its public diffusion in unperfected form could not but do more harm than good.

She tried employing her unperfected ladylike sniff to cover her speechlessness.