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Murad Naser Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

use of correct word

Is it a correct sentence, if I say
' her beauty was immaculate.'
  

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"immaculate" means unsoiled or unspotted, completely clean. Is that what you mean?

  • "immaculate" means unsoiled or unspotted, completely clean.
  • Is that what you mean?
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"immaculate" means unsoiled or unspotted, completely clean.

Is that what you mean?
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Thank you. And yes i intended to express something like that ,my emphasis on her beauty. She was so stunning & flawless.
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Murad Naserher beauty was immaculate.
I think you're trying to paint an idea green. It can't be done.

"beauty" is an abstract quality. You can't claim that it's clean or dirty. Immaculate means, basically, very clean. I've never heard of very clean beauty. The only use of "immaculate" used with a somewhat abstract idea that I know of is the theol
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"Immaculate" has its derivation from the Latin "macula," meaning spot. Thus we get its meaning spotless, which can lead to a literal meaning of very clean or to a more metaphorical meaning of unblemished. Thus for Catholics, Mary's conception was immaculate, not literally clean, but unblemished by original sin.

Unblemished beauty seems an acceptable concept to me.

And I've pain

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