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Perfection vs Haste - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between perfection and haste

is that perfection is the quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection' in an art, in a science, or in a system; '''perfection''' in form or degree; fruits in ' perfection while haste is speed; swiftness; dispatch.

As verbs the difference between perfection and haste

is that perfection is (obsolete|transitive) to perfect while haste is to urge onward; to hasten.

perfection

English

(wikipedia perfection)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection' in an art, in a science, or in a system; '''perfection''' in form or degree; fruits in ' perfection .
  • A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
    • What tongue can her perfections tell? -
  • The highest degree of excellence.
    • to imitate a model to perfection

    Quotations

    * 1784 , William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. , PREFACE
    THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection ; and di?tingui?h it from others?;?which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.

    Synonyms

    * faultlessness * infallibility

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To perfect.
    • (Foote)
  • * (William Woty)
    • Sooner I'd kneel unto the modern nine / Alike perfectioned , though a virgin's name / They cannot boast
    (Webster 1913)

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    haste

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
    • We were running late so we finished our meal in haste .
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8
    • The king's business required haste .
  • (obsolete) Hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
  • * Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11
    • I said in my haste , All men are liars.

    Derived terms

    * hasten verb * hastily adverb * hastiness noun * hasty adjective * make haste * posthaste, post haste adverb

    Related terms

    * hurry * rush * scramble * scamper * scurry

    Verb

    (hast)
  • To urge onward; to hasten
  • To move with haste.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594, author=, title=A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition), chapter=The Wounds of Civill War, edition= citation
    • , passage=The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest. }}

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    Anagrams

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