Pristine vs Immaculate - What's the difference?
pristine | immaculate |
Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something
Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
* 2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia [http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/publications/pubs/freshwater-sawfish-northern-river-shark.pdf]
Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
As adjectives the difference between pristine and immaculate
is that pristine is unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied while immaculate is having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.pristine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pristin.Adjective
(en adjective)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)- This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).
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.