Perfection vs Pittance - What's the difference?
perfection | pittance |
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.
The highest degree of excellence.
(obsolete) To perfect.
* (William Woty)
A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
A meagre allowance of money or wages.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
A small amount.
As nouns the difference between perfection and pittance
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 pittance is a small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.As a verb perfection
is (obsolete|transitive) to perfect.perfection
English
(wikipedia perfection)Noun
(en noun)- What tongue can her perfections tell? -
- 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 * infallibilityVerb
(en verb)- (Foote)
- Sooner I'd kneel unto the modern nine / Alike perfectioned , though a virgin's name / They cannot boast
References
* ----pittance
English
Noun
(en noun)- So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.