intemerateness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

intemerate +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

intemerateness (uncountable)

  1. (nonce word, obsolete) The state of being unpolluted; purity.
    • August 15 1607, John Donne, letter to Henry Godyere
      They shall therefore ever keep the sincerity and intemerateness of the fountain, whence they are derived.

References[edit]

“intemerateness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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