intemerateness

English

Etymology

From intemerate +‎ -ness.

Noun

intemerateness (uncountable)

  1. (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.

References

“intemerateness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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