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pristine (adjective) –
1 : belonging to the earliest period or state
2a : not spoiled, corrupted, or polluted (as by civilization)
b : fresh and clean as or as if new
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : When pristine was anglicized in the 16th century, people borrowed the meanings of “early” and “original” from the Latin word pristinus and applied those meanings to what is desirable as well as to what is not. But it has long been a tendency of civilized people to admire a simpler and unsullied past. The supposition is that when things were in their oldest or original state, they were better. Thus, pristine was extended to describe the notion of an unspoiled, uncorrupted, or unpolluted state. And what is unspoiled or uncontaminated may connote the freshness and cleanness of something that has just been made, which explains how pristine has also come to mean “fresh and clean.”
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