English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
self- + perfect
self-perfect (third-person singular simple present self-perfects, present participle self-perfecting, simple past and past participle self-perfected)
- To perfect itself; to make itself perfect.
2014, Tristan Garcia, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things[1]:"Humanity self-perfects and will self-perfect."
2001, M. C. Dillon, Beyond Romance[2]:"As one self-perfects (self-normalizes), the motivation to do evil diminishes, and the ease with which one does what is good increases."