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immaculate

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im⋅mac⋅u⋅late

  [i-mak-yuh-lit]
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–adjective
1. free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen.
2. free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled.
3. free from fault or flaw; free from errors: an immaculate text.
4. Biology. having no spots or colored marks; unicolor.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L immaculātus unspotted. See im- 2 , maculate

Related forms:
im⋅mac⋅u⋅la⋅cy  [i-mak-yuh-luh-see] , im⋅mac⋅u⋅late⋅ness, noun
im⋅mac⋅u⋅late⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
2. irreproachable, blameless, unimpeachable, unexceptionable.
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im·mac·u·late   (ĭ-māk'yə-lĭt)   
adj.  

  1. Impeccably clean; spotless. See Synonyms at clean.

  2. Free from stain or blemish; pure.

  3. Free from fault or error: an immaculate record.

  4. Having no markings.


[Middle English immaculat, from Latin immaculātus : in-, not; see in-1 + maculātus, past participle of maculāre, to blemish (from macula, spot).]
im·mac'u·late·ly adv., im·mac'u·late·ness n.
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Word Origin & History

immaculate 
c.1430, "free from mental or moral pollution, pure," from a fig. use of L. immaculatus "unstained," from in- "not" + maculatus "spotted, defiled," pp. of maculare "to spot," from macula "spot, blemish." The literal sense of "spotlessly clean or neat" is first attested 1735. Immaculate Conception is 1497, from M.Fr. conception immaculée; declared to be an article of faith in 1854.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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