immaculatenessn.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 103 The immaculatenesse of the Lambe.

1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia xii. ii. 140 Candour and immaculatenesse of conversation is onely required..by some vow or consecration.

1718 I. Sharpe Hist. Acct. Rise & Growth Heresie i. 122 The Immaculateness of the blessed Virgin.

1780 Times addressed to Freemen of Ireland 38 They will not blush at talking to you of the Immaculateness of their conduct and honour.

c1815 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 610 Now in one breath to declare a Church fallible, & in another to assert it's absolute Immaculateness, sounds to me a mere contradiction.

1869 Athenæum 1 May 597/2 Mr. Lee..struggles hard to prove the immaculateness of his client.

1895 North-China Herald 15 Mar. 402/3 The immaculateness of precision with which he said ‘How-do-you-do’.

1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. v. 74 Skin-like immaculateness had grown over Soames..: impossible to conceive of him with a hair out of place.

1981 U. Hegi Intrusions lxxvi. 136 Its intimidating immaculateness was not merely due to the existence of a highly paid housekeeper.

2007 D. B. Smith Muses, Madmen, & Prophets ix. 143 The sheer immaculateness of his intellectual reputation.