immaculate

From Middle English immaculat, from Latin immaculātus; prefix im- (“not”) + maculātus, perfect passive participle of maculō (“I spot, stain”), from macula (“spot”). See mail (armor).

Displaced native unwemmed (“pure, untainted”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmækjəlɪt/

immaculate (comparative more immaculate, superlative most immaculate)

1. Having no 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. — Sir John Denham

   Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. — Shakespeare, Richard II, V-iii.

immaculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of immaculātus