Flawless

a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] Free from flaws; without a crack, defect, or imperfection.

1648.  Boyle, Seraph. Love, iii. (1700), 20. Devotion is like a flawless Diamond, where the bigness Taxes the value, and the unusual bulk both rates and inhances the Lustre and the Price.

1755.  in Johnson.

1856.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., IV. V. viii. § 18. The quiet streams, springs, and lakes are always of exquisite clearness, and the sea which washes a granite coast is as unsullied as a flawless emerald.

1865.  Pall Mall G., 22 April, 11. Reynolds was almost flawless.

1884.  Symonds, Shaks. Predecessors, ix. 361. In the history of English literature, ‘Comus’ remains to show how the scenic elements of the Masque, touching the fancy of a great poet, became converted into flawless poetry beneath his hand.

  Hence Flawlessly adv., Flawlessness.

1884.  Edgar Fawcett, Henry James’s Novels, in The Princeton Review, July, 78. We know her to be good and flawlessly pure, a dévote of the church in whose tenets she has been reared, and a gentle zealot in her strict observance of maternal and fraternal commands.

1888.  The Saturday Review, LXVI. 22 Sept., 340/2. It is not your runaway horse in driving that may occupy the driver’s mind, but the strength and flawlessness of the reins.

1890.  I. D. Hardy, New Othello, I. viii. 184. A moderate degree of good looks may often pass as beauty in a box at the theatre, just out of the glare of the gaslight, and with all the accessories of evening toilette; but here, in the full flood of the searching sunlight that mercilessly picks out every little blemish, Lady May was flawlessly fair, and fresh as an unfolding rose with the dew on it.