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"expansion": "Old French perfection",
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"expansion": "Latin perfectiō",
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"ref": "1762, [Samuel] Foote, The Orators. […], Dublin: […] Thomas Richey, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 10:",
"text": "My plan, gentlemen, is to be conſider'd as a ſuperſtructure on that admirable foundation laid by the modern profeſſor of Engliſh, both our labours tending to the ſame general end; the perfectioning of our countrymen in a moſt eſſential article, the right uſe of their native language.",
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"ref": "1770, William Woty, Mock Invocation to Genius:",
"text": "Sooner I'd kneel unto the modern nine / Alike perfectioned, though a virgin's name / They cannot boast[…]",
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{
"ref": "2001 December 3, OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol, “AHSM Storytellers, Profiles”, in alt.hentai.sailor-moon (Usenet):",
"text": "The most vain of the Assistants, she knows she's beautiful and let it know to the world. Acts like an ojousama and spends most of her time perfectioning her make-up.",
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"To perfect."
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