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Maculate   Listen
verb
Maculate  v. t.  To spot; to stain; to blur. "Maculate the honor of their people."



adjective
Maculate  adj.  Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Maculate" Quotes from Famous Books



... The island was so Marian that the folk supposed the Milky Way was a fingerpost to guide pilgrims to the shrine of the Virgin at Walsingham. And one, that is Duns Scotus the champion of the Im- maculate Conception. See ...
— Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Now First Published • Gerard Manley Hopkins

... in dumb agony. Colette's foul walls and maculate table-linen, and even down to Colette's villainous casters, seemed like objects in a nightmare. And just then there came a knock and a scurrying; the police, so lamentably absent from the Calton Hill, appeared upon the ...
— Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson



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