omniperfect

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

omni- +‎ perfect

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɒmˈnɪˈpɜː.fɪkt/, /ɒmˈnɪˈpɜː.fɛkt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɒmˈnɪˈpɝ.fɪkt/

Adjective[edit]

omniperfect (not comparable)

  1. Truly perfect in every way.
    • 1921, Harold Vincent Hayes, The Lady in White and Her Marvellous Missions[1], page 73:
      God is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniperfect Spirit; too pure to love impurity, too good to love iniquity, too perfect to love imperfection.
    • 1837, Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Burgh, The True Intellectual System of the Universe[2], Andover, Gould & Newman, page 441:
      The world hath a governor set over it, that Word of the Lord of all which was the maker of it; this is the first power after him- self, uncreated, infinite, looking out from him, and ruling over all things that were made by him; this is the perfect and genuine Son of the first omniperfect Being.
    • 1982, Francisco Peccorini Letona, On to the World of Freedom--A Kantian Meditation of Finite Selfhood[3], University Press of America, →ISBN, page 336:
      On the one hand, we know that there is a necessary being; on the other, we postulate the existence of an omniperfect being as the only possible account of the "objective possibility" of things.
    • 2002, Lillian M. Hall, The Atomic Priesthood[4], Stone People Enterprises Incorporated, page 482:
      "What you call dark and light, feminine and masculine, left and right, yin and yang, good and bad, all of it. For you are, indeed, all one. Aspects of all that is...omnipresent, omniperfect. All truth is held in paradox so that you may know who you are. Ye are gods."
    • 2015, John Marenbon, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy[5], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 182:
      Anselm seeks to describe the nature of an omniperfect being, to prove its existence and to describe its attributes understood as perfections.