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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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. --
        {Im*mac"u*late*ly}, adv. -- {Im*mac"u*late*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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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