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immaculate

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im·mac·u·late  (-mky-lt)
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 immacultus : in-, not; see in-1 + macultus, past participle of maculre, to blemish (from macula, spot).]

im·macu·late·ly adv.
im·macu·late·ness n.

immaculate
Adjective
1. completely clean or tidy: an immaculate pinstripe suit
2. completely flawless: his equestrian pedigree is immaculate [Latin in- not + macula blemish]
immaculately adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.immaculate - completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps"
clean - free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"
2.immaculateimmaculate - free from stain or blemish
pure - (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
3.immaculate - without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record"
perfect - being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"

immaculate
adjective 1. clean, impeccable, spotless, trim, neat, spruce, squeaky-clean, spick-and-span, neat as a new pin << OPPOSITE dirty
adjective 2. pure, perfect, innocent, impeccable, virtuous, flawless, faultless, squeaky-clean, guiltless, above reproach, sinless, incorrupt << OPPOSITE corrupt
adjective 3. perfect, flawless, impeccable, stainless, faultless, unblemished, unsullied, uncontaminated, unpolluted, untarnished, unexceptionable, undefiled << OPPOSITE tainted
Translations
Spanish immaculate [ɪˈmækjulət] adjlimpísimo, inmaculado;
(REL) → inmaculado

French immaculate [ɪˈmækjulət] adjimpeccable;
(Rel) → immaculé(e)

German immaculate [ɪˈmækjulət] adjmakellos;
(appearance, piece of work) → tadellos;
(Rel) → unbefleckt

Italian immaculate [ɪˈmækjulət] adjimmacolato/a; [dress, appearance] → impeccabile

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And this do I call IMMACULATE perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge's eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate.
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
 
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