Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no spots.
- adjective Morally upright.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not spotted or stained; free from spots. Free from moral stain; untainted with guilt; immaculate. Free from ceremonial uncleanness.
- Unblemished; faultless; pure; perfect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not spotted; free from spot or stain; especially, free from moral stain; unblemished; immaculate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not having
spots , particularly where this is unusual - adjective unseen
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without soil or spot or stain
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Examples
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“May we live unspotted from the world, the flesh, & the devil.”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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(Mic 6: 7, 8) as visiting the fatherless, &c., and keeping one's self unspotted from the world (Mt 23: 23).
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Not that any keep themselves here wholly free from defilement; but, as compared with hollow professors, the godly keep themselves unspotted from the world; and when they do contract it, they wash it away, so as to have their robes white in the blood of the
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Compare "undefiled" and "unspotted from the world," Jas 1: 27; 4: 4, 8,
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The word unspotted in the original bears that interpretation -- uncontaminated.
The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Mark Rutherford 1872
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I understand my duty to my sheep or cattle, to my master, to my father or mother, to my brother or sister, to my pupil Davie here; I owe my ancestors love and honour, and the keeping of their name unspotted, though that duty is forestalled by
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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It was that you might be kept 'unspotted from the world.'
Queechy 1854
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"Will you help her to mind her mother's prayer, and keep herself unspotted from the world?"
Queechy 1854
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Christ would be born, not of an empress or queen, for he appeared not in outward pomp or splendour, but of a virgin, to teach us spiritual purity, to die to all the delights of sense, and so to keep ourselves unspotted from the world and the flesh that we may be presented chaste virgins to Christ.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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John comprises all that is in the world, which we are not to love, under three heads: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life; and to keep ourselves unspotted from all these is to keep ourselves unspotted from the world.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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