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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

intemerateness en · NOUN

Etymology

From intemerate + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (nonce-word, obsolete, uncountable) 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.