The American Heritage® Book of English Usage.
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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Some people maintain that perfect is as an absolute term like chief and prime and therefore cannot be modified by more, quite, relatively, and other qualifiers of degree (for more on this, see absolute terms under Grammar).
But the qualification of perfect has many reputable precedents (most notably in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution in the phrase “in order to form a more perfect Union “).
Besides, perfect often means “ideal for the purposes,” as in There could be no more perfect spot for the picnic, where modification by degree makes perfect sense.
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