Immaculate vs Consummate - What's the difference?
immaculate | consummate |
Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
* Addison
* 1900 , ",
* 1880 , ,
highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
* a consummate sergeant
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To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
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To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
* 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch
As adjectives the difference between immaculate and consummate
is that immaculate is having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure while consummate is complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.As a verb consummate is
to bring (a task, project, goal etc) to completion; to accomplish.immaculate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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 * unsulliedDerived terms
* Immaculate Conception * immaculately * immaculatenessconsummate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.
Synonyms
* (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utterDerived terms
* consummatelyVerb
(consummat)- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
