Immaculate
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Etymology
Latin immaculatus; prefix im- not + maculatus, past participle of maculare to spot, stain, from macula spot. Middle English immaculat. See mail armor.
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Adjective
- having no stain or blemish, spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
- Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. — Jordan Denham?
- Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. — Shakespeare, Richard II, V-iii.
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Derived expressions
- Immaculate conception, (Roman Catholic Church): the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin.
- Immaculately
- Immaculateness