perfectibilian
English
Noun
perfectibilian (plural perfectibilians)
- (archaic) A perfectionist.
- 1996, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
- There is, nevertheless, a definite sense in which he [Karl Marx] remained both a rationalist and a perfectibilian to the end of his life.
- 1875, "The Works of Thomas Love Peacock", in The Edinburgh Review
- The quartette in the mail coach consists of Mr. Foster, the perfectibilian […]
- 1996, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
References
perfectibilian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913