[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being spotless.
1624. Donne, Devot., 305. Lord, if thou look for a spotlessnesse, whom wilt thou looke vpon?
a. 1684. Leighton, Wks. (1835), I. 116. As for this Blood, it is nothing but purity and Spotlessness.
1727. in Bailey (vol. II.).
1865. W. H. Gillespie, Arg. Being & Attrib. God, IV. ii. (1871), 142. Holiness is moral stainlessness, spotlessness, unsulliedness, immaculateness.
1888. Honnor Morten, Sk. Hosp. Life, 16. I confess that a little less light and air and spotlessness, would have made me feel more at home.
