incontaminate

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/ɪŋkənˈtæmɪnət/

adjective

Not contaminated; pure.

OriginLatin incontaminatus →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adjectiveincontaminate (comparative more incontaminate, superlative most incontaminate)

comparative more incontaminate · superlative most incontaminate

  1. archaicNot contaminated; pure.
    1 more example

    Ye that phanſy your ſelves the onely Zelots for truth and holineſs, the onely found and incontaminate part of our Nation, but the National Church ſick and crazy; if it vvere ſo indeed, vvhere is your Charity, and hovv little your Diſcretion, to run out of the houſe novv your Mother lies thus on her ſick-bed?

    1664, H[enry] More, “[The Apology of Dr. Henry More, […].] Chapter X.”, in Synopsis Prophetica; or, The Second Part of the Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity: […], London: […] James Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, page 563

Origin

  1. Latinincontaminatus
  2. Englishincontaminate

From Latin incontaminatus, from in- (“not”), and contaminate.

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incontaminate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incontaminate

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Chicago

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