intemerateness
English
editEtymology
editFrom intemerate + -ness.
Noun
editintemerateness (uncountable)
- (nonce word, obsolete) 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.
- August 15 1607, John Donne, letter to Henry Godyere
References
edit“intemerateness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.