Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inviolability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being inviolable.
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- noun The quality or state of being
inviolable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In addition to his repugnance at breaking salt with the man who had robbed him, it was necessary for him to impress the inviolableness of Grief's lies on the
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And in one place he hath so ordered his words, to show their inviolableness and indissolubleness, that you must make a distribution of them to gather their right sense.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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But in the order of thought, in art, the glory, the eternal honour is that charlatanism shall find no entrance; herein lies the inviolableness of that noble portion of man's being. '
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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In addition to his repugnance at breaking salt with the man who had robbed him, it was necessary for him to impress the inviolableness of Grief's lies on the
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But in the order of thought, in art, the glory, the eternal honour is that charlatanism shall find no entrance; herein lies the inviolableness of that noble portion of mans being.
The Study of Poetry 1909
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Yet they stood apart, and something pressed upon Alan the inviolableness of the little freedom of space between them, of its sacredness to Mary Standish, and darker and deeper grew the glory of pride and faith that lay with the love in her eyes when he did not cross it.
The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903
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His grace to the sinful, and He cannot deny the moral order in which alone He can live in fellowship with men; and we see the inviolableness of both asserted in the death of Jesus.
The Atonement and the Modern Mind James Denney 1886
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Only, dear friends! let us remember that the inviolableness of the ambassador depends on his function, and not on his person; and that if we want to be kept from all evil, we must do the work for which we have been sent here.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868
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* The inviolableness and permanence of marriage* are so absolutely essential to the stability and well-being of families, as to be virtually
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(thirteen in number) made against them, but assuring the inviolableness of private property, and offering to stay legal proceedings against the Corporation in case of their submitting to the decision of the King, on the points heretofore required by his Majesty as conditions of perpetuating the Charter 208
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 Egerton Ryerson 1842
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