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impeccable, a. (n.)|ɪmˈpɛkəb(ə)l|
[ad. late L. impeccābil-is, f. im- (im-2) + peccāre to sin: see -ble. Cf. F. impeccable (15th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
1. Of persons: Not capable of or liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of sinning or doing wrong.
1531Latimer Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.) 325 No..judges..so deeply confirmed in grace, or so impeccable. a1555Ibid. 226 Though she never sinned, yet she was not so impeccable, but she might have sinned. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. i. 25 The Pope is not only infallible, but also impeccable. 1736Bolingbroke Patriot. (1749) 156 He knows that neither he nor his ministers are infallible, nor impeccable. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. v. 71 No soul is absolutely impeccable.
2. Of things: Faultless, unerring.
1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy §8. 43 If we honor the man, must wee hold his pen impeccable? 1864Bowen Logic vii. 184 We need some more succinct mode than that of severally applying to each Syllogism all these Rules, before we can be satisfied that it is impeccable.
3. n. One who is impeccable.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 7 A brace of impeccables, an't please ye. 1887Marg. W. Laurence in W. Gladden Parish Probl. 144 A row of these same impeccables.
Hence imˈpeccably adv., in an impeccable manner; without liability to sin.
1874R. Tyrwhitt Sketch. Club 221 Painters cannot..follow it [the Christian faith] impeccably. |