undefiled

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   free from moral or spiritual stain, corruption, or violation; pure

   The poem imagines an undefiled soul passing safely into the afterlife.

2. 2
   adj

   not spoiled, polluted, or made physically impure

   The spring remained undefiled by waste from the settlement.

Formed from un- + defiled, the past participle of defile ('make impure or violate'). Its strongest literary and religious uses concern freedom from moral or spiritual stain.

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