immaculateadj.

Brit.

/ᵻˈmakjᵿlət/, U.S.

/ᵻˈmækjələt/

Forms:

α. late Middle English–1600s immaculat, late Middle English– immaculate, 1600s imaculate; also Scottish pre-1700 immaculat.

β. late Middle English inmaculat, late Middle English–1500s inmaculate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin immaculātus.

Etymology: < classical Latin immaculātus (in post-classical Latin also inmaculatus, attested in inscriptions) unstained, in post-classical Latin also pure, free from sin (Vulgate) < im- im- prefix² + maculātūs maculate adj. Compare Middle French, French immaculé (1327), Catalan immaculat (14th cent.), Spanish inmaculado (late 14th cent.), Portuguese imaculado (1614), Italian immacolato (a1243 as †immaculato).

a. Free from sin or wrongdoing; irreproachable; (frequently of the Virgin Mary or her womb) undefiled, pure.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective]

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unwemmedc950

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unpolluted1732

1441 in J. B. Sheppard Let. Bks. Monastery Christ Church Canterbury (1889) 174 (MED) [The] berer of thys letter..for the zeele that I have to the immaculate place that he come fro, I treted as my brother.

c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 311 The king of heuyn blysse..Into a vyrgyns wombe immaculate, Descendyd.

a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 113 (MED) Heyle towre of Dauid & vyrgyn immaculat!

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. lvi Their counsayll infected & corrupted the kynges clene and immaculate conscience.

1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat v. ii. sig. K4^v Take not thy flight so soone immaculate spirit.

1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 235 This Life is pure and immaculate Love, and this Love is God.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 14 The World's infectious; few bring back at Eve Immaculate, the Manners of the Morn.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xxiii. 79 The exercise of their sacred functions requires an immaculate purity.

1811 Monthly Anthol. Mar. 165 He [sc. Juvenal] was not quite so immaculate himself, as to take very deep offence at the black spots that he discerned in others.

1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 188 Convinced of his wife's immaculate purity.

1909 E. W. Wilcox Poems of Progress 36 You came to earth, a soul immaculate, Baptized in fire, with some great part to play.

1979 J. Lees-Milne Diary 10 July in Deep Romantic Chasm (2003) 37 If you are royal you must be immaculate, or expect the consequences.

2005 ‘Sultan’ Tyger vs Al Qaeda xxv. 235 He is immaculate. We have never heard anything negative about him!

b. Free from vice, sin, etc. Now somewhat rare (chiefly historical).

ΚΠ

1529 tr. Erasmus Exhort. Studye Script. To Rdr. p. vii We may here lyve pure and immaculate from all vices and iniquites.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 373 As they were imaculate from faults of their bodies, so he..was immaculate from sins.

1627 R. Winterton tr. J. Gerhard Meditations xxxvii. 369 If the body bee not kept pure and immaculate from whoredome, the soule cannot bee ardent in Prayer.

1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 95 The Virgin Mary..was preserved immaculate from Original sin.

1736 Gentleman's Mag. June 347/1 Who ever keeps His body clean, immaculate from lust, The temple of the holy ghost..shall receive.

1790 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) III. 507 His chastity was immaculate from sin or scandal.

1839 F. B. Head Narrative ix. 244 Two judges, who, above all people, ought to be immaculate from political sin.

1907 Ars Quatuor Coronatorum 20 290 The religion of the Temple is..clean and immaculate from all the articles, vices and sins aforesaid.

2008 E. Cameron in M. Sæbø Hebrew Bible/Old Test. II. xv. 335 The late medieval period fostered a number of ‘new’ doctrines, most notably that Mary had been conceived immaculate from original sin.

a. Spotlessly clean; perfectly neat and tidy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [adjective]

cleanc897

fair?c1225

netc1330

cleanly1340

unspotted1382

blotless?a1400

unwemmeda1400

spotlessc1400

neat1494

unblotted1548

unstained1555

stainlessa1586

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immaculatea1631

innocent1645

unsmeared1648

unsmutched1809

speckless1827

spandy-clean1838

unblackened1864

soilless1868

smudgeless1924

clinical1932

squeaky clean1975

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 344 In immaculate clothes, and Symetrie Perfect as circles.

1733 A. Pope Impertinent 15 A white-glov'd Chaplain..in immaculate trim, Neatness itself impertinent in him.

1823 Manch. Iris 7 June 186/3 He was well dressed in all other respects, immaculate waistcoat,..silk stockings in perfect health.

1856 H. B. Stowe Dred I. iv. 52 Every plait of her immaculate cap.

1905 W. J. Locke Morals of Marcus Ordeyne xii. 146 She puts her foot upon my sartorially immaculate knee.

1972 I. Levin Stepford Wives ii. 97 Her immaculate living room—cushions all fluffed, woodwork gleaming.

2010 Independent 2 Aug. 7/3 Honey-coloured hair gathered into an immaculate chignon.

b. Chiefly Entomology and Zoology. Without contrasting spots or marks; unspotted.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > dappled or spotted > having no dots

immaculate1690

unpunctated1848

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [adjective] > marked with points or dots > not spotted or punctate

immaculate1690

impunctate1819

1690 L. Plukenet Let. 3 June in W. Derham Philos. Lett. betw. Ray & several Correspondents (1718) 230 Flowers..of a most immaculate white.

1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 154 Small green oak moth. First Wings green, immaculate.

1826 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds (ed. 6) I. 55 He describes the male bird to be of an immaculate white.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 198 Abdomen..with spots and angulated bands of brown and white; legs immaculate.

1847 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 5. 236 Thorax narrowed towards the base, immaculate.

1916 Bird-lore 18 362 The spots of the upperparts are obscure, and the brown of the belly duller and usually immaculate.

1996 R. D. Bartlett & P. P. Bartlett Turtles & Tortoises 82/2 The plastron of the hatchling yellow-bellied sliders bears ocelli anteriorly but is usually immaculate posteriorly.

2001 C. S. Guppy & J. H. Shepard Butterfiles Brit. Columbia 207/2 For the Immaculate Green Hairstreak, undersides of the wings have an apple-green ground colour.

a. Of a manuscript, book, etc.: completely free from textual errors.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [adjective] > altered by copyist or printer > erroneously > not

uncorrupt1596

incorrupt1624

immaculate1684

1684 N. S. tr. R. Simon Crit. Enq. Editions Bible xviii. 176 The Translation of the 70. which was preserved incorrupt and immaculate in the Books of the Learned.

1778 G. Colman in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Dramatick Wks. II. 145 The copy of 1651 corrects various passages which appear nonsense in that of 1637... Not that it is immaculate.

1797 H. Lemoine Typogr. Antiq. 96 In 1744, he [sc. Robert Foulis] brought out his famous immaculate edition of Horace.

1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. xiii. 49 They [sc. the Jews] believed..that all the manuscripts of their Law were immaculate, and the same to a letter.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 65 Editions which claim a sort of canonization as immaculate, as for instance the Virgil of Didot and the Horace of Foulis.

1913 Sc. Hist. Rev. 11 100 There surely should not be much difficulty in presenting an almost immaculate text considering that Drummond prepared his volumes of verse for the press.

1996 A. C. Crombie Sci., Art & Nature in Medieval & Mod. Thought xiv. 288 Agnès Bresson has published a major and immaculate edition..of Peiresc's letters to the philologist Claude Saumaise.

b. Free from flaws or mistakes; perfect, faultless; impeccable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > pure or flawless

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pedicured1988

1791 J. Mackintosh Vindiciæ Gallicæ Introd. p. xiii For the delivery of the peerless and immaculate Antoinetta..from the durance vile in which she has so long been immured in the Thuilleries.

1836 R. Gordon Let. to Viscount Melbourne on Liberty of Subj. 61 Lord Brougham, the immaculate abuser of sinecures.

1843 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 483/1 A sumptuous edition of the New Testament printed in gold on porcelain paper of most immaculate beauty.

1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith i. i. §2. 48 The Sceptical philosophy is by no means so immaculate.

1925 Amer. Mercury July 304/1 James Madison..dressed in such immaculate taste and behaving with such perfect decorum that he won from the French minister the nickname of ‘the cardinal’.

1967 Billboard 8 July 26/3 Simon and Garfunkel ended the first evening's show with a delicate and immaculate set.

1992 C. Sprawson Haunts of Black Masseur (1993) vii. 256 Weissmuller himself was an immaculate swallow diver.

2009 Southern Reporter (Scotl.) (Nexis) 18 Feb. Razor-sharp diction and immaculate timing make for a performance to delight any Savoyard.

Compounds

Immaculate Heart n. (a) the heart of the Virgin Mary, as an object of or focus for religious devotion; frequently in Immaculate Heart of Mary; cf. Sacred Heart n. 1; (b) used as (part of) the name of religious orders, churches, or schools. [After French Cœur Immaculé (1681 (in St Jean Eudes, who propagated the devotion) or earlier with reference to the heart of the Virgin Mary).]

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1806 C. Heath Monmouthshire 103 The confraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary have lately procured from Munich, a beautiful statue of their sweet Patroness carved in wood, and richly painted and gilt.

1840 Inquirer Jan. 46/2 In Paris, ‘a confraternity of Prayers,’ established in honour ‘of the immaculate heart of our Lady’.

1858 G. Tickell tr. Month of Sacred Heart of Jesus 135 O Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.

1969 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 15 Oct. 41/3 Immaculate Heart girls don't have much choice—they wear uniforms.

1997 Latin Mass Summer 28/3 Let us today commend this intention to the Immaculate Heart of the Mediatrix of all graces.

2013 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 12 Dec. For Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Spanish-language service in the 1,200-seat sanctuary held special significance.

immaculate lamb n. [after post-classical Latin agnus immaculatus (Vulgate: 1 Peter 1:19), itself after Hellenistic Greek ἀμνὸς ἄμωμος (New Testament)] used as an epithet of Christ (cf. lamb n.¹ 3a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as lamb

the LambOE

immaculate lamb?a1475

Passover1539

?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 256 This immaculat lombe þat I xal ȝow ȝeve Is..bothe god and man.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Ciiii^v The immaculat lambe, christ Iesu the son of god.

1620 T. Wilson Saints by Calling 213 The Lord of life, the immaculate Lambe.

1742 R. Manning Moral Entertainm. III. lix. 246 He designed to..feast their Souls with the Sacred Flesh of the Immaculate Lamb, which takes away the Sins of the World.

1926 Catholic Hist. Rev. 12 433 There is everywhere offered up a clean oblation to the Lord of hosts, the Immaculate Lamb.

2004 B. S. Childs Struggle to understand Isaiah as Christian Script. vii. 98 Moab's consolation is the coming of the immaculate Lamb who will remove the sins of the world.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	immaculate
释义	immaculateadj. Brit. /ᵻˈmakjᵿlət/, U.S. /ᵻˈmækjələt/ Forms: α. late Middle English–1600s immaculat, late Middle English– immaculate, 1600s imaculate; also Scottish pre-1700 immaculat. β. late Middle English inmaculat, late Middle English–1500s inmaculate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin immaculātus. Etymology: < classical Latin immaculātus (in post-classical Latin also inmaculatus, attested in inscriptions) unstained, in post-classical Latin also pure, free from sin (Vulgate) < im- im- prefix² + maculātūs maculate adj. Compare Middle French, French immaculé (1327), Catalan immaculat (14th cent.), Spanish inmaculado (late 14th cent.), Portuguese imaculado (1614), Italian immacolato (a1243 as †immaculato). 1. a. Free from sin or wrongdoing; irreproachable; (frequently of the Virgin Mary or her womb) undefiled, pure. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective] cleanlyc888 unwemmedc950 clean971 lightOE whiteOE unfiledc1200 shire?c1225 sheenc1275 wemlessc1275 undefouled13.. undefoileda1325 purec1330 unbleckedc1380 unfouledc1380 clear1382 impollutec1384 unblemishedc1400 undefiledc1400 unspottedc1400 virginc1400 spotless?a1430 immaculate1441 uncorruptc1450 unpollushed1490 intemeratea1492 incorrupted1529 unmaculate1535 impolluted1548 crystallinec1550 incorrupt1550 uncorrupted1565 undistained1565 unstained1573 entire1587 taintless1590 untainted1590 stainless1599 unsmirched1604 intemerated1608 indepravate1609 chastea1616 uncurseda1628 undishonested1631 untaint1638 Adamical1649 sincere1649 undebaucheda1656 unaccurseda1674 amiantal1674 unsoiled1699 unpolluted1732 1441 in J. B. Sheppard Let. Bks. Monastery Christ Church Canterbury (1889) 174 (MED) [The] berer of thys letter..for the zeele that I have to the immaculate place that he come fro, I treted as my brother. c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 311 The king of heuyn blysse..Into a vyrgyns wombe immaculate, Descendyd. a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 113 (MED) Heyle towre of Dauid & vyrgyn immaculat! 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. lvi Their counsayll infected & corrupted the kynges clene and immaculate conscience. 1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat v. ii. sig. K4^v Take not thy flight so soone immaculate spirit. 1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 235 This Life is pure and immaculate Love, and this Love is God. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 14 The World's infectious; few bring back at Eve Immaculate, the Manners of the Morn. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xxiii. 79 The exercise of their sacred functions requires an immaculate purity. 1811 Monthly Anthol. Mar. 165 He [sc. Juvenal] was not quite so immaculate himself, as to take very deep offence at the black spots that he discerned in others. 1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 188 Convinced of his wife's immaculate purity. 1909 E. W. Wilcox Poems of Progress 36 You came to earth, a soul immaculate, Baptized in fire, with some great part to play. 1979 J. Lees-Milne Diary 10 July in Deep Romantic Chasm (2003) 37 If you are royal you must be immaculate, or expect the consequences. 2005 ‘Sultan’ Tyger vs Al Qaeda xxv. 235 He is immaculate. We have never heard anything negative about him! b. Free from vice, sin, etc. Now somewhat rare (chiefly historical). ΚΠ 1529 tr. Erasmus Exhort. Studye Script. To Rdr. p. vii We may here lyve pure and immaculate from all vices and iniquites. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 373 As they were imaculate from faults of their bodies, so he..was immaculate from sins. 1627 R. Winterton tr. J. Gerhard Meditations xxxvii. 369 If the body bee not kept pure and immaculate from whoredome, the soule cannot bee ardent in Prayer. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 95 The Virgin Mary..was preserved immaculate from Original sin. 1736 Gentleman's Mag. June 347/1 Who ever keeps His body clean, immaculate from lust, The temple of the holy ghost..shall receive. 1790 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) III. 507 His chastity was immaculate from sin or scandal. 1839 F. B. Head Narrative ix. 244 Two judges, who, above all people, ought to be immaculate from political sin. 1907 Ars Quatuor Coronatorum 20 290 The religion of the Temple is..clean and immaculate from all the articles, vices and sins aforesaid. 2008 E. Cameron in M. Sæbø Hebrew Bible/Old Test. II. xv. 335 The late medieval period fostered a number of ‘new’ doctrines, most notably that Mary had been conceived immaculate from original sin. 2. a. Spotlessly clean; perfectly neat and tidy. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [adjective] cleanc897 fair?c1225 netc1330 cleanly1340 unspotted1382 blotless?a1400 unwemmeda1400 spotlessc1400 neat1494 unblotted1548 unstained1555 stainlessa1586 exempt1586 unsoiledc1592 undefiled1596 unsullied1598 dirtlessa1618 immaculatea1631 innocent1645 unsmeared1648 unsmutched1809 speckless1827 spandy-clean1838 unblackened1864 soilless1868 smudgeless1924 clinical1932 squeaky clean1975 a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 344 In immaculate clothes, and Symetrie Perfect as circles. 1733 A. Pope Impertinent 15 A white-glov'd Chaplain..in immaculate trim, Neatness itself impertinent in him. 1823 Manch. Iris 7 June 186/3 He was well dressed in all other respects, immaculate waistcoat,..silk stockings in perfect health. 1856 H. B. Stowe Dred I. iv. 52 Every plait of her immaculate cap. 1905 W. J. Locke Morals of Marcus Ordeyne xii. 146 She puts her foot upon my sartorially immaculate knee. 1972 I. Levin Stepford Wives ii. 97 Her immaculate living room—cushions all fluffed, woodwork gleaming. 2010 Independent 2 Aug. 7/3 Honey-coloured hair gathered into an immaculate chignon. b. Chiefly Entomology and Zoology. Without contrasting spots or marks; unspotted. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > dappled or spotted > having no dots immaculate1690 unpunctated1848 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [adjective] > marked with points or dots > not spotted or punctate immaculate1690 impunctate1819 1690 L. Plukenet Let. 3 June in W. Derham Philos. Lett. betw. Ray & several Correspondents (1718) 230 Flowers..of a most immaculate white. 1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 154 Small green oak moth. First Wings green, immaculate. 1826 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds (ed. 6) I. 55 He describes the male bird to be of an immaculate white. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 198 Abdomen..with spots and angulated bands of brown and white; legs immaculate. 1847 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 5. 236 Thorax narrowed towards the base, immaculate. 1916 Bird-lore 18 362 The spots of the upperparts are obscure, and the brown of the belly duller and usually immaculate. 1996 R. D. Bartlett & P. P. Bartlett Turtles & Tortoises 82/2 The plastron of the hatchling yellow-bellied sliders bears ocelli anteriorly but is usually immaculate posteriorly. 2001 C. S. Guppy & J. H. Shepard Butterfiles Brit. Columbia 207/2 For the Immaculate Green Hairstreak, undersides of the wings have an apple-green ground colour. 3. a. Of a manuscript, book, etc.: completely free from textual errors. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [adjective] > altered by copyist or printer > erroneously > not uncorrupt1596 incorrupt1624 immaculate1684 1684 N. S. tr. R. Simon Crit. Enq. Editions Bible xviii. 176 The Translation of the 70. which was preserved incorrupt and immaculate in the Books of the Learned. 1778 G. Colman in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Dramatick Wks. II. 145 The copy of 1651 corrects various passages which appear nonsense in that of 1637... Not that it is immaculate. 1797 H. Lemoine Typogr. Antiq. 96 In 1744, he [sc. Robert Foulis] brought out his famous immaculate edition of Horace. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. xiii. 49 They [sc. the Jews] believed..that all the manuscripts of their Law were immaculate, and the same to a letter. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 65 Editions which claim a sort of canonization as immaculate, as for instance the Virgil of Didot and the Horace of Foulis. 1913 Sc. Hist. Rev. 11 100 There surely should not be much difficulty in presenting an almost immaculate text considering that Drummond prepared his volumes of verse for the press. 1996 A. C. Crombie Sci., Art & Nature in Medieval & Mod. Thought xiv. 288 Agnès Bresson has published a major and immaculate edition..of Peiresc's letters to the philologist Claude Saumaise. b. Free from flaws or mistakes; perfect, faultless; impeccable. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > pure or flawless lutter971 unwemmedc1000 fair?c1225 upright?c1225 purec1300 without lackc1300 completec1380 defaultlessa1425 flush?1550 undefective1599 impeccable1620 indefectivea1641 defectless1651 virginala1659 flawless1659 unflawed1665 indefectuous1685 unblighted1785 immaculate1791 indefectible1833 shadeless1894 flukeless1895 intacta1941 pedicured1988 1791 J. Mackintosh Vindiciæ Gallicæ Introd. p. xiii For the delivery of the peerless and immaculate Antoinetta..from the durance vile in which she has so long been immured in the Thuilleries. 1836 R. Gordon Let. to Viscount Melbourne on Liberty of Subj. 61 Lord Brougham, the immaculate abuser of sinecures. 1843 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 483/1 A sumptuous edition of the New Testament printed in gold on porcelain paper of most immaculate beauty. 1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith i. i. §2. 48 The Sceptical philosophy is by no means so immaculate. 1925 Amer. Mercury July 304/1 James Madison..dressed in such immaculate taste and behaving with such perfect decorum that he won from the French minister the nickname of ‘the cardinal’. 1967 Billboard 8 July 26/3 Simon and Garfunkel ended the first evening's show with a delicate and immaculate set. 1992 C. Sprawson Haunts of Black Masseur (1993) vii. 256 Weissmuller himself was an immaculate swallow diver. 2009 Southern Reporter (Scotl.) (Nexis) 18 Feb. Razor-sharp diction and immaculate timing make for a performance to delight any Savoyard. Compounds Immaculate Heart n. (a) the heart of the Virgin Mary, as an object of or focus for religious devotion; frequently in Immaculate Heart of Mary; cf. Sacred Heart n. 1; (b) used as (part of) the name of religious orders, churches, or schools. [After French Cœur Immaculé (1681 (in St Jean Eudes, who propagated the devotion) or earlier with reference to the heart of the Virgin Mary).] ΚΠ 1806 C. Heath Monmouthshire 103 The confraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary have lately procured from Munich, a beautiful statue of their sweet Patroness carved in wood, and richly painted and gilt. 1840 Inquirer Jan. 46/2 In Paris, ‘a confraternity of Prayers,’ established in honour ‘of the immaculate heart of our Lady’. 1858 G. Tickell tr. Month of Sacred Heart of Jesus 135 O Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us. 1969 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 15 Oct. 41/3 Immaculate Heart girls don't have much choice—they wear uniforms. 1997 Latin Mass Summer 28/3 Let us today commend this intention to the Immaculate Heart of the Mediatrix of all graces. 2013 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 12 Dec. For Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Spanish-language service in the 1,200-seat sanctuary held special significance. immaculate lamb n. [after post-classical Latin agnus immaculatus (Vulgate: 1 Peter 1:19), itself after Hellenistic Greek ἀμνὸς ἄμωμος (New Testament)] used as an epithet of Christ (cf. lamb n.¹ 3a). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as lamb the LambOE immaculate lamb?a1475 Passover1539 ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 256 This immaculat lombe þat I xal ȝow ȝeve Is..bothe god and man. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Ciiii^v The immaculat lambe, christ Iesu the son of god. 1620 T. Wilson Saints by Calling 213 The Lord of life, the immaculate Lambe. 1742 R. Manning Moral Entertainm. III. lix. 246 He designed to..feast their Souls with the Sacred Flesh of the Immaculate Lamb, which takes away the Sins of the World. 1926 Catholic Hist. Rev. 12 433 There is everywhere offered up a clean oblation to the Lord of hosts, the Immaculate Lamb. 2004 B. S. Childs Struggle to understand Isaiah as Christian Script. vii. 98 Moab's consolation is the coming of the immaculate Lamb who will remove the sins of the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1441
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