intemerateness
English
Etymology
intemerate + -ness
Noun
intemerateness (uncountable)
- (nonce word, obsolete) The state of being unpolluted; purity.
- August 15 1607, John Donne, letter to Henry Godyere
- They shall therefore ever keep the sincerity and intemerateness of the fountain, whence they are derived.
- August 15 1607, John Donne, letter to Henry Godyere
References
intemerateness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913