Immaculate means perfectly clean and without a single flaw. An immaculate kitchen, immaculate condition, immaculately dressed.
It claims perfection, which is why it is a strong compliment for a car, a house or an appearance. In Catholic doctrine, the Immaculate Conception is the belief that Mary was conceived without original sin — and it refers to her conception rather than to Christ's, which is the most persistently misunderstood point in the whole doctrine. Note immaculately; and that the Latin means unstained.
1adjectiveimmaculatePerfectly clean and without a single flaw.
“Her kitchen is always immaculate, without a crumb on the counter.”
immaculate is a quality of perfection.
Latin immaculatus is in- plus maculatus, stained, from macula, a spot. Maculate and the mackerel's markings come from the same spot.
Proto-Indo-European
*smeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European
*smh₂-tló-m — wiping (?)
Latin
immaculātus — unstained
Middle English
immaculat
English, today
immaculate
Built from
From Late Middle English immaculat, immaculate (“blameless; flawless, spotless; specifically of the Virgin Mary: pure, undefiled”), borrowed from Latin immaculātus (“unstained”), from im- + maculātus, the perfect passive participle of maculō (“to spot, stain; to defile, pollute; (figurative) to dishonour”), from macula (“a blemish, spot, stain; (figurative) blot on one’s character, fault”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European smh₂-tló-m (“wiping (?)”), from smeh₂- (“to rub; to smear”). The word displaced Middle English unwemmed (“pure, untainted”). See also -ate. by surface analysis, im- + macule + -ate. 2
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