Hypertext Webster Gateway: "immaculately"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

immaculately
adv : in an immaculate manner; "gone was the casually dressed
Canadian she had thought a backwoodsman--this man was
immaculately tailored"


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