Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Secure from violation or profanation.
- adjective Impregnable to assault or trespass; invincible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not to be violated; having a right to or a guaranty of immunity; that is to be kept free from violence or violation of any kind, as infraction, assault, arrest, invasion, profanation, etc.: as, an inviolable peace or oath; inviolable territory; inviolable sanctity.
- That cannot be violated; not subject to violence; incapable of being injured.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not violable; not susceptible of hurt, wound, or harm (used with respect to either physical or moral damage); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy
- adjective Unviolated; uninjured; undefiled; uncorrupted.
- adjective Not capable of being broken or violated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
violable ; notsusceptible ofviolence , or of beingprofaned orcorrupted ; incapable of beinginjured ; not to beinfringed ordishonoured .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being transgressed or dishonored
- adjective immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- adjective not capable of being violated or infringed
- adjective must be kept sacred
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Once upon a time we could look to our academic institutions to remain inviolable bastions of objectivity, remaining above the fray, guided by the quest for truth and the truth alone.
RP Siegel: What Price Impartiality? Top Universities Sell Their Reputations to Big Oil RP Siegel 2010
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Once upon a time we could look to our academic institutions to remain inviolable bastions of objectivity, remaining above the fray, guided by the quest for truth and the truth alone.
RP Siegel: What Price Impartiality? Top Universities Sell Their Reputations to Big Oil RP Siegel 2010
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For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!
Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals 2005
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He kept his word inviolable; was rigorous in the execution of justice; liberal in his gifts; and often merciful to those who offended him.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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And thus inviolable is the covenant of grace: I have sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, as I have been, and rebuke thee, as I have done.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The idea that a tank is "inviolable" - or "invincible" as some newspapers put it - is, in any event, laughable, straight out of the comic books.
Archive 2007-04-01 Helen 2007
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In this way, Hawley’s goals surpassed those of the Self-Strengthening Movement out of which the C.E.M. had initially sprung and according to which the Chinese mind was, as an essential tenet of that movement, to remain inviolable to external influences.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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Almost as inviolable, that is, when those who live in it are our friends.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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Morocco's king once was constitutionally considered sacred but under amendments passed in 2011 in response to pro-democracy protests, his person is now described as "inviolable and respect is due him."
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By PAUL SCHEMM 2012
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But the folks who treat this theory as some kind of inviolable economic law are refusing to look at the empirical data.
Start a Business, Young Person, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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