intemerate
[in-tem-er-it]
- inviolate; undefiled; unsullied; pure.
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Origin of intemerate
1485–95; < Latin intemerātus, equivalent to in- in-3 + temerā(re) to violate, desecrate + -tus past participle suffix
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- rare not defiled; pure; unsullied
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Word Origin
C15: from Latin intemerātus undefiled, pure, from in- 1 + temerāre to darken, violate, from temere rashly
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