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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Immaculate \Im*mac"u*late\, adjective [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.
Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. --Denham.
Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. --Shak.
{Immaculate conception} (R. C. Ch.), the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. -- {Im*mac"u*late*ly}, adverb -- {Im*mac"u*late*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
immaculate
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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