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intemerate, a.|ɪnˈtɛmərət|
[ad. L. intemerāt-us, f. in- (in-3) + temerātus, pa. pple. of temerāre to violate.]
Inviolate, undefiled, unblemished.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. vii. 10 a/1 Our sauyour wyth his intemerate & holy moder. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. i. (W. de W.) 7 The moost pure, moost intermerate..and moost vertuouse vyrgyne. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 161 [We] wyl not suffer our intemerat and inviolate feyth in no maner of promesse to be corrupte or defilled. 1657Reeve God's Plea Ep. Ded. 1 A Gentleman of intemerate fame, and unblemished reputation. 1864E. Sargent Peculiar II. 254 You mean to make her your wife, and the wife of Corberry Ratcliff must be intemerate. 1893Tablet 21 Oct. 651 The absolute sinlessness of Mary, as well as her intemerate virginity.
Hence inˈtemerately adv., in an intemerate or inviolate manner; purely. inˈtemerateness, the quality of being intemerate or undefiled; purity.
1607Donne Poems, etc., Let. to Sir H. Goodeere (1633) 362 They [my letters] shall therefore ever keepe the sincerity and intemeratenesse of the fountaine whence they are derived. a1631― Serm. li. 520 He cannot take the water so sincerely, so purely, so intemerately from the channell as from the fountaine head. |