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Immaculate
Definitions
- 1 Having no blemish or stain; absolutely clean and tidy.
"O loyall Father, of a treacherous Sonne, / Thou ſheere immaculate and ſiluer Fountaine, / From vvhence this ſtreame, through muddy paſſages, / Hath held his current, and defild himſelfe."
- 2 Containing no mistakes. figuratively
- 3 Containing no mistakes.; Of a book, manuscript, etc.: having no textual errors. figuratively, specifically
- 4 Free from sin; morally pure; sinless. archaic, figuratively
"Take not thy flight ſo ſoone immaculate ſpirit."
- 5 Of the Virgin Mary or her womb: pure, undefiled. figuratively
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- 6 Lacking blotches, spots, or other markings. especially
- 1 completely neat and clean wordnet
- 2 without fault or error wordnet
- 3 free from stain or blemish wordnet
Etymology
From Late Middle English immaculat, immaculate (“blameless; flawless, spotless; specifically of the Virgin Mary: pure, undefiled”), borrowed from Latin immaculātus (“unstained”), from im- (negative prefix) + maculātus (“stained, spotted; defiled, polluted; (figurative) dishonoured”), the perfect passive participle of maculō (“to spot, stain; to defile, pollute; (figurative) to dishonour”), from macula (“a blemish, spot, stain; (figurative) blot on one’s character, fault”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smh₂-tló-m (“wiping (?)”), from *smeh₂- (“to rub; to smear”). The word displaced Middle English unwemmed (“pure, untainted”). See also -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, im- + macule + -ate. Cognates * Catalan immaculat * Italian immacolato, immaculato (obsolete) * Middle French immaculé (modern French immaculé) * Portuguese imaculado * Spanish inmaculado
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