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perfectionist

/pɚˈfɛk.ʃənɪst/ noun C2
  1. Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
  2. One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin. (US)

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