counsel of perfection

Meaning

Noun

Advice as to a means of striving for moral perfection.
Noble but impractical idealistic advice.

Origin

From Latin consilium perfectionis, Aquinas et al., from consilium in Tertullian's translation of 1 Cor. 7:25.

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