maculate

• “Because the notion of blackness has been made equivalent to sin: maculate vs. immaculate, the staining of purity.”

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• “Its immaculate reputation sits totally at odds with its maculate workings.”

  T.A.N.G.O

• “A Cordelier has no hesitation in applying the epithet of blasphemer to a Dominican who says that the Holy Virgin was born in original sin, notwithstanding that the Dominicans have a bull from the pope which permits them to teach the maculate conception in their convents, and that, besides this bull, they have in their forum the express declaration of St. Thomas Aquinas.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “He has never decided whether His mother came into the world maculate or immaculate.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under such colours.”

  Love’s Labour ’s Lost

• “Well, there was no denying that, Cory thought ruefully, assimilating the pale blonde hair, artfully coiffed, the im maculate maquillage, the close fitting dove-coloured trouser suit that showed off her mother's slim, toned figure to the best advantage, and the fur jacket draped casually round her shoulders.”

  Rome's Revenge

• “But the tears and blood which follow violence and wrong maculate the pages of history on which their glory is recorded.”

  Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail

• “Of this half-hundred a few are used in Shakespeare, but not at present, as verbs; thus, to _maculate_, to _miracle_, to _mud_, to _mist_, to _mischief_, to _moral_ -- also”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.

• “To-morrow's papers would provide them with full accounts, the name of Susan Brundon among the maculate details ....”

  The Three Black Pennys A Novel

• “In the maculate atmosphere of flat wine and stale cologne he had a sharp recurrence of the scent of pines, lifting warmly in sunny space.”

  The Three Black Pennys A Novel

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