Immaculate
[ɪ'mækjʊlət] or [ɪ'mækjələt]
Definition
(adj.) completely neat and clean; 'the apartment was immaculate'; 'in her immaculate white uniform'; 'a spick-and-span kitchen'; 'their spic red-visored caps' .
(adj.) free from stain or blemish .
Editor: Stanton--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure.
Checker: Phyllis
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Spotless, unspotted, stainless, unsullied, unsoiled, untainted, unblemished, untarnished, undefiled, clean, pure.[2]. Innocent, guiltless, sinless, faultless.
Editor: Michel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pure, sinless, spotless, stainless, virgin, unpolluted, undefiled, unsullied,unblemished, unspotted
ANT:Impure, corrupt, sinful, contaminated, denied, tainted, polluted, spotted
Checked by Jennie
Definition
adj. spotless: unstained: pure.—adv. Immac′ulately.—n. Immac′ulateness.—Immaculate Conception the R.C. dogma that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin—first proclaimed in 1854.
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Examples
- But Fate intervened enviously and prevented her from receiving the reward due to such immaculate love and virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate beings! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Nor did the immaculate young Frenchman appeal to the primal woman in her, as had the stalwart forest god. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Nearly fifty thousand persons assembled in St. Peter's to hear the publishing of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am not begging the question we are upon--whether we are to try for nothing till we find immaculate men to work with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The one great outrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was the passage of a donkey over that immaculate spot. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He declares that his mighty immaculate pigmies, Gogs or Magogs, the Miss New Times's, or the Misses New Times, shall not read one line of my book! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In short, so very bad, that she once sent for her own immaculate brother! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I have heard two very intelligent critics speak of Murillo's Immaculate Conception (now in the museum at Seville,) within the past few days. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is the folly of the simple disciple which demands miraculous frippery on the majesty of truth and immaculate conceptions for righteousness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That's rather unlucky, too, for such an immaculate chap. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- At your vanity, in supposing that none but the most immaculate could refuse you. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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