perfectibilian

English

Noun

perfectibilian (plural perfectibilians)

1. (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 […]

References

“perfectibilian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.