a. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a spotless manner; without spot or stain; immaculately.

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1828.  Caledonian Mercury, 10 Nov., 1/3. Life is too short, and the wants of unenlightened men too claimant to admit of such delay, where the gift itself is spotlessly pure.

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1852.  Hawthorne, Blithedale Rom., xxiv. (1885), 236. Toadstools,… some spotlessly white.

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1855.  Kingsley, Westw. Ho! ii. So Mr. Frank was arrayed spotlessly.

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1888.  Miss Braddon, Fatal Three, I. ii. The room was spotlessly clean.

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  fig.  1887.  Pall Mall Gaz., 12 Oct., 4/1. The whole of Donegal, Fermanagh, and Monaghan, are as spotlessly Nationalist as any part of Connaught.

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