maculacy

English

Noun

maculacy (uncountable)

1. The quality of being maculate, stained or blemished.

   Antonym: immaculacy

   • 2001, Georgina Dopico Black, Perfect Wives, Other Women, page 42:

     It is no coincidence that the honor code and limpieza statutes shared a rhetoric of maculacy and immaculacy (the former associated with adultery and semitic blood, the latter with marital chastity and cristiano viejo origins), or that both applied this rhetoric to a narrative of blood.