Definition of "perfective" []

• Tending toward perfection. (adjective)
• Grammar Of, related to, or being the aspect that expresses the completion or the result of the action denoted by the verb. (adjective)
• Grammar The perfective aspect. (noun)
• Grammar A perfective verb form. (noun)
• Grammar A verb having a perfective form. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The perfective is the ordinary style of an honest narrative."
• "But the common run of fiction in the Soviet magazines continues as it was, and it is to be feared that there is something intrinsically opposed to the "perfective" narrative in the constitution of the contemporary Russian novelist."
• "The issue at hand is not the generation of human life, but the protecting of human life, the good of the personhood of neither the parents nor the child is violated with HET and it is completely compatible with the love and respect for every good that is perfective of the human person."