intemerateness

== English == === Etymology === From intemerate +‎ -ness. === Noun === intemerateness (uncountable) (nonce word, obsolete) The state of being unpolluted; purity. August 15 1607, John Donne, letter to Henry Godyere They shall therefore ever keep the sincerity and intemerateness of the fountain, whence they are derived. === References === “intemerateness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.