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maculate

[mak-yuh-lit, mak-yuh-leyt] / ˈmæk yə lɪt, ˈmæk yəˌleɪt /








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Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."

From Time Magazine Archive

But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.

From Time Magazine Archive

And one, that is Duns Scotus the champion of the Im- maculate Conception.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour

Are the diplomatic corps less maculate than in the days of Grenville Murray?

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

From this black hour, this curse anointing hour, The currents of thy heart are all corrupt; The motions of thy thoughts are serpentine; And thy death-doing and bedabbled soul Is maculate with spots of Erebus.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various




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