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immaculate

(ĭ-măk′yə-lĭt)

adj.

1. Impeccably clean; spotless: "The room was as spare and immaculate as a monk's cell" (Caroline Preston).

2. Free from sin.

3. Free from fault or error: an immaculate record on the job.

4. Biology Having no spots or marks.

im·mac′u·late·ly adv.

im·mac′u·late·ness n.

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The moral immaculateness of Cooper's character was central to Murray's muscular Christianity: there permeates an intrinsic belief that natural matter (the body) is ontologically bound to the spirit (the mind).

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