Immaculate Conception

American  

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

1. the dogma of the unique privilege by which the Virgin Mary was conceived in her mother's womb without the stain of original sin through the anticipated merits of Jesus Christ.

---

Immaculate Conception British  

noun

1. Christian theol RC Church the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin

---

Immaculate Conception Cultural  

1. A doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. It states that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free from original sin (see also original sin).

---

Etymology

Origin of Immaculate Conception

First recorded in 1680–90

Example Sentences

But love, love, my good Paul, is a faith like that in the Immaculate conception of the Holy Virgin; it comes, or it does not come.

From The Marriage Contract by Balzac, Honoré de

Immaculate conception, on the doctrine of the, 407.

From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc. by Various

Immaculate conception 315:21 Jesus' spiritual origin and understanding enabled him         to demonstrate the facts of being, - to prove irrefutably         how spiritual Truth destroys material error, 315:24 heals sickness, and overcomes death.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker