Dictionary entry

Immaculate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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, adv. — Im‐mac″u‐late‐ness, n.