maculacy
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]maculacy (uncountable)
- The quality of being maculate, stained or blemished.
- Antonym: immaculacy
- 2001, Georgina Dopico Black, Perfect Wives, Other Women, page 42:
- It is no coincidence that the honor code and limpieza statutes shared a rhetoric of maculacy and immaculacy (the former associated with adultery and semitic blood, the latter with marital chastity and cristiano viejo origins), or that both applied this rhetoric to a narrative of blood.