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Immaculate vs Emaculate - What's the difference?

immaculate | emaculate |

As a verb emaculate

is to clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.

As an adjective immaculate is

having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.

immaculate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
    • Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate . —
    Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. — Shakespeare, Richard II , V-iii.

    Synonyms

    * spotless * undefiled * unsullied

    Derived terms

    * Immaculate Conception * immaculately * immaculateness

    emaculate

    English

    Verb

    (emaculat)
  • (obsolete) To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
    • (Hales)
    (Webster 1913)