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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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17 words match “FAULTLESS”

FAULTLESS a.
r imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.
ABSOLUTE a.
Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.
BEAU IDEAL n.
ee from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.
CRAVATTED a.
Wearing a cravat. The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted. Thackeray.
HARBEROUS a.
Harborous. [Obs.] A bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, honestly appareled, harberous. Tyndale (1 Tim. iii. 2)
ICILY adv.
In an icy manner; coldly. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more. Tennyson.
IDEAL a.
Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty. Byron. There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence. Rambler.
INCULPABLE a.
Faultless; blameless; innocent. South. An innocent and incupable piece of ignorance. Killingbeck.
INCULPABLENESS n.
Blamelessness; faultlessness.
NULL a.
or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.
PERFECTION n.
A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence. Shak. What tongue can her perfections tell Sir P. Sidney. To perfection, in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection.
PERFECTLY adv.
In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly. "Perfectly divine." Milton. As many as touched were made perfectly whole. Matt. xiv. 36.
PRONOUNCE v.
To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly. Earle.
SLEEK a.
en, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair. Chaucer. So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make. Dryden.
SPOTLESS a.
ure; untained; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior. A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife. Waller.
STROKE n.
stroke; a firm stroke. O, lasting as those colors may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line. Pope.
UNEXCEPTIONABLE a.
Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character. -- Un`ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`ex*cep"tion*a*bly, adv.