Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or quality of being inviolable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being inviolable; inviolableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
inviolable ;inviolableness .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word inviolability.
Examples
-
Governments and international bodies can then lose sight of the objectivity and "inviolability" of rights.
Spero News 2009
-
The myth of the capital's inviolability -- which had been shared by all sections of the city's society -- had been irrevocably shattered.
Roger Moorhouse's "Berlin at War," reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley 2010
-
Her skill of painting human body was obvious even after her intentional strive of covering the inviolability of human beings.
-
In his homily, he took up the words of Pope Benedict's homily at Solemn Vespers on the occasion of the conclusion of the Pauline Year highlighted on the NLM, and exhorted the new priests to be committed to the inviolability of human life from its first instant, thereby radically opposing the principle of violence also precisely in the defence of the most defenceless human creatures is part of an adult faith.
-
That is not a situation when Dobson would argue for the inviolability of that marriage.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Much Easier to Fight Caricatures 2010
-
The myth of the capital's inviolability -- which had been shared by all sections of the city's society -- had been irrevocably shattered.
Roger Moorhouse's "Berlin at War," reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley 2010
-
Thus, being committed to the inviolability of human life from its first instant, thereby radically opposing the principle of violence also precisely in the defence of the most defenceless human creatures is part of an adult faith.
-
Judaism insists on the absolute integrity and inviolability of the original text, but permits translation.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
-
“Part of an adult faith, for example, is a commitment to the inviolability of human life from its first moment, radically opposing the principle of violence, precisely in the defense of the most defenseless of human creatures,” the pope said.
-
Judaism insists on the absolute integrity and inviolability of the original text, but permits translation.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.