Immaculate \Im*mac"u*late\, a. [L. immaculatus; pref. im- not +
maculatus, p. p. of maculare to spot, stane, fr. macula spot.
See Mail armor.]
Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure.
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Were but my soul as pure
From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold
One more immaculate. --Denham.
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Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. --Shak.
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Immaculate conception (R. C. Ch.), the doctrine that the
Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
immaculate
adj 1: completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate";
"in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span
kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps" [syn: speckless,
spick-and-span, spic-and-span, spic, spick, spotless]
2: free from stain or blemish [syn: undefiled]
3: without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks
impeccable French"; "timing and technique were
immaculate"; "an immaculate record" [syn: faultless, impeccable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "immaculate":
Christian, absolute, beyond all praise, blameless, bleached,
blotless, bright, chaste, clean, cleanly, creditable, dainty,
dapper, decent, defectless, dirt-free, erect, errorless, estimable,
ethical, exquisite, fair, fastidious, faultless, flawless, fresh,
full of integrity, good, guiltless, high-minded, high-principled,
highly respectable, honest, honorable, ideal, impeccable,
indefectible, indefective, infallible, innocent, inviolate,
irreproachable, just, just right, kosher, law-abiding, law-loving,
law-revering, manly, modest, moral, neat, noble, nonpolluted,
of cleanly habits, peerless, perfect, principled, pristine, pure,
pure in heart, purehearted, reputable, respectable, right,
right-minded, righteous, ritually pure, sexually innocent, shiny,
sinless, smut-free, smutless, snow-white, snowy, spick and span,
spotless, spruce, stainless, sterling, sweet, tahar, taintless,
tidy, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled,
true-spirited, truehearted, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched,
unblemished, unblotted, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, uncorrupted,
undefiled, unfaultable, unimpeachable, unmixed, unmuddied,
unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspoiled, unspotted,
unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, uprighteous,
upstanding, vestal, virginal, virtuous, well-scrubbed, well-washed,
white, whitened, worthy, yeomanly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
faultless, impeccable, speckless, spic, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotless, undefiled
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