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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inviolate
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I simply thought this was an inviolate, eternal truth.
▪ If both parties committed abandonment, adultery, or extreme cruelty, the union was still held to be inviolate.
▪ Purists object that once you have a forest, it should be left inviolate.
▪ The navy yards are religious sanctuaries completely inviolate on the part of the lay public.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inviolate

Inviolate \In*vi"o*late\, Inviolated \In*vi"o*la`ted\, a. [L. inviolatus. See In- not, and Violate.]

  1. Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken.

    His fortune of arms was still inviolate.
    --Bacon.

  2. Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure. ``Inviolate truth.''
    --Denham.

    There chaste Alceste lives inviolate.
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inviolate

"unbroken, intact," early 15c., from Latin inviolatus “unhurt,” from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + violatus (see violation).

Wiktionary
inviolate

a. 1 Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment. 2 incorruptible.

WordNet
inviolate
  1. adj. (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact, virginal" [syn: intact]

  2. must be kept sacred [syn: inviolable, sacrosanct]

Usage examples of "inviolate".

In that dreadful day, thought the Algonkins, when in anger Michabo will send a mortal pestilence to destroy the nations, or, stamping his foot on the ground, flames will burst forth to consume the habitable land, only a pair, or only, at most, those who have maintained inviolate the institutions he ordained, will he protect and preserve to inhabit the new world he will then fabricate.

For surely, if I remain unhoused, and forgo life in Arda, then his Doom will be inviolate.

Devised by the Englishman Joseph Bramah in the 1760s, it had gone unpicked, inviolate, for over half a century until it was finally cracked.

The little snake who was now openly calling himself Divi Filius could sit in Arretium inviolate.

He leaned his head aside and the glove scraped hurtlessly against the side of his face Bentley went down on one knee, his gloves up even in that inviolate position.

She was the closest thing to a chirurgeon and healer the marshes boasted, and so was inviolate from most of the mayhem that raged among the marsh-dwellers.

However high minded they may have been, General MacArthur and his command ruled their new domain as neocolonial overlords, beyond challenge or criticism, as inviolate as the emperor and his officials had ever been.

Don't think for a minute I haven't run from the caves of Jurasse to the Barren Plains for believing myself inviolate just because I was Regent.

Preserved by three Brahmins, the inviolate deity, bearing the Yellow Diamond in its forehead, was removed by night, and was transported to the second of the sacred cities of India—the city of Benares.

Yet a philosopher might have reflected, that, if the resistance of his wife had been sincere, her chastity was still inviolate, and that it could never be restored if she had consented to the will of the adulterer.

At the recommendation of Valerian, a senator of the highest rank and merit, Ulpius Crinitus, whose blood was derived from the same source as that of Trajan, adopted the Pannonian peasant, gave him his daughter in marriage, and relieved with his ample fortune the honorable poverty which Aurelian had preserved inviolate.

The bleeding heroine still continued to brave his resentment, and to repel his love, till the ravisher desisted from his unavailing efforts, respectfully conducted her to the sanctuary of the Vatican, and gave six pieces of gold to the guards of the church, on condition that they should restore her inviolate to the arms of her husband.

The Mentat philosopher had chewed deep into everything they accepted and what he disgorged did not agree with Archival dependence upon "our inviolate summations.

Bequeathed by Voltar's ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago, it is inviolate and s acred and the guiding dogma of the Confederacy.

This is the most fundamental and absolute system of cooperation between the two nations of our planet, and is inviolate.