inconˈtaminate, a.
[ad. L. incontāminātus, f. in- (in-3) + contāminātus contaminate ppl. a.]
Uncontaminated, undefiled, unaffected by any corruption.
| 1508 Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. cxxx. Wks. (1876) 228 It is the very innocent and precious blode of the incontamynate lambe. 1664 H. More Myst. Iniq. Apol. 563 Ye that phansy your selves..the onely sound and incontaminate part of our Nation. 1844 W. Kay in tr. Fleury's Eccl. Hist. III. 341 note, The essential light mixes not with other matter, but is incontaminate, incapable of being united..with any other substance. |
Hence inconˈtaminateness (Craig, 1847).