ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Intemerate

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Intemerate is an adjective meaning (rare) Pure, undefiled, chaste.

Meaning

(rare) Pure, undefiled, chaste.

Example Sentences

You mean to make her your wife ; and the wife of Carberry Ratcliff must be intemerate!
The flagrant corruption and prostitution of all that is sacred at Rome, had never spread its taint into his upright, intemerate soul.
And hitherto their flesh had been intemerate and inviolable; the strictest orders had been issued that none should dare to slap them, and all were only too prone to coax and pet the beautiful angels.
The states of the kingdom are bound, with faithful concern, to leave intemerate all the royal prerogatives, after the dictates of the Swedish law, so that they shall be kept in their full vigor and strength .

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Related dictionary entries include intemerated, unstained, virginal, immaculate, unsoiled, untainted.

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