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  • noun The state or condition of being stainless.

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stainless +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Here are a few ideas for an all white menu symbolizing the purity and the stainlessness of Mary's immaculate soul.

    Meal ideas for the Feast of The Immaculate Conception Ruth 2008

  • Here are a few ideas for an all white menu symbolizing the purity and the stainlessness of Mary's immaculate soul.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Jessica 2008

  • These are the two results achieved by Righteousness, viz., the stainlessness of the soul and unsusceptibility of being touched by Unrighteousness.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • It fell as thickly upon the gravestones in Trinity's ancient churchyard as upon the freshly turned earth in a corner of the paupers 'burying ground; and it set upon black corruption wherever it was in evidence the seal of a transient stainlessness.

    Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

  • To lead the pure Daphnis life of simplicity, stainlessness, communion with beautiful souls, was to lead the highest life.

    Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

  • The grime that comes through loving service is better than the stainlessness of inactivity; as the poet

    Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

  • And - and - by George, such an effect of purity and stainlessness.

    Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

  • Neither the affection of her husband nor the stainlessness of her life could insure that she should close her days in the house whither she had come in her youth as a bride.

    The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911

  • Neither the affection of her husband nor the stainlessness of her life could insure that she should close her days in the house whither she had come in her youth as

    The Women of the Caesars Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

  • In vision, in insight, in purity, in stainlessness, in all that we reverence in human life and that good men strive to attain, we have no model to set beside His example.

    Sermons at Rugby John Percival 1876

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