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maculacy

maculacy noun: the quality of being maculate, stained or blemished.

Noun

maculacy (uncountable)

  1. 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

Antonyms of maculacy

Origin of maculacy

From macule + -acy.

Questions about maculacy

What does maculacy mean?
Maculacy means the quality of being maculate, stained or blemished.
What part of speech is maculacy?
Maculacy is a noun.

Words near maculacy in the dictionary

  1. macuca
  2. macucas
  3. Macuga
  4. macula
  5. macula lutea
  6. maculacy
  7. maculae
  8. maculae luteae
  9. macular
  10. macular degeneration
  11. maculas

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