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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Im·mac·u·late a.  Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure.
 Were but my soul as pure
 From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold
 One more immaculate.   --Denham.
    Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain.   --Shak.
 Immaculate conception R. C. Ch., the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin.
 -- Im*mac*u*late*ly, adv. -- Im*mac*u*late*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Immaculate Conception
      n 1: Roman Catholic holy day first celebrated in 1854 [syn: December
            8]
      2: (Christianity) the Roman Catholic doctrine that the Virgin
         Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin