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imperfect
has definitions from the field of grammar
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[ adjective ] not perfect; defective or inadequate
Examples "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities" "imperfect mortals" "drainage here is imperfect" Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)Private Jenkins_Lloyd_Jones of the Wisconsin_Light_Artillery wrote in his diary : `` I strolled among the Alabamans on the right , found some of the greenest specimens of humanity I think in the universe their ignorance being little less_than the slave they despise with as imperfect a dialect ' They Recooned as how you ' uns all would be a heap wus to we ' uns all '' ' . |
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[ adjective ] having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
Examples "I'm only human" "frail humanity" Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished , so most notably in the statement : `` If the [ Holy ] Spirit is absent from the soul , such a man is indeed of an animal nature ; and , being left carnal , he will be an imperfect being , possessing the image [ of God ] in his formation , but not receiving the similitude [ of God ] through the Spirit '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (grammar) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
Related terms tense future_progressive past_progressive present_progressive |
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