Crossword clues for immaculateness
immaculateness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being immaculate; spotlessness.
WordNet
n. the state of being spotlessly clean [syn: spotlessness]
Usage examples of "immaculateness".
Within the immaculateness of his evening dress, Barrows shivered, fearing that Curtis' voice might attract undue attention to them.
The house, in its state of unnatural immaculateness and order, was as dreary as a tomb, and as Lily, turning from her brief repast between shrouded sideboards, wandered into the newly-uncovered glare of the drawing-room she felt as though she were buried alive in the stifling limits of Mrs.
In some of the lower chambers and corridors there was little more than gritty dust or ancient incrustations, while occasional areas had an uncanny air of newly swept immaculateness.