maculacy

English

Noun

maculacy (uncountable)

  1. 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.
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