immaculate

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈmækjʊlət/    美 /ɪˈmæk.jʊ.lət/|/ᵻˈmæk.jə.lət/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having no blemish or stain; absolutely clean and tidy.
    — O loyall Father, of a treacherous Sonne, / Thou ſheere immaculate and ſiluer Fountaine, / From vvhence this ſtreame, through muddy paſſages, / Hath held his current, and defild himſelfe.
  2. Containing no mistakes; free from fault. figuratively
  3. Containing no mistakes; free from fault.; Of a book, manuscript, etc.: having no textual errors. figuratively,specifically
  4. Free from sin; morally pure; sinless. archaic,figuratively
    — Take not thy flight ſo ſoone immaculate ſpirit.
  5. Of the Virgin Mary or her womb: pure, undefiled. figuratively
  6. Lacking blotches, spots, or other markings. especially

词形变化

more immaculate comparative most immaculate superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
Immaculate Conception immaculate concussion immaculate disinflation immaculately immaculateness immaculism Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary unimmaculate
相关词
macula macular maculate maculated maculated fever maculation maculatory macule maculism

词源

From Late Middle English immaculat, immaculate (“blameless; flawless, spotless; specifically of the Virgin Mary: pure, undefiled”), borrowed from Latin immaculātus (“unstained”), from im- (negative prefix) + maculātus (“stained, spotted; defiled, polluted; (figurative) dishonoured”), 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 (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, im- + macule + -ate.
Cognates
* Catalan immaculat
* Italian immacolato, immaculato (obsolete)
* Middle French immaculé (modern French immaculé)
* Portuguese imaculado
* Spanish inmaculado
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