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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

And I was shown in that Vision the Calvaries of maternity common to all, whether the conception be immaculate, so-called if within the law, or maculate, so-called if without the law.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

Colette's foul walls and maculate table-linen, and even down to Colette's villainous casters, seemed like objects in a nightmare.

From Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis




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