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maculacy en · NOUN

Etymology

From macule + -acy.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being maculate, stained or blemished.
    • 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. 2001, Georgina Dopico Black, Perfect Wives, Other Women, page 42:

Antonyms

immaculacy