Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being inviolate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being inviolate.

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  • noun The state of being inviolate.

Etymologies

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inviolate +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • People nearly always exact that sort of an assurance in the beginning of confidences; like a woman wanting to be told she is of nobler courage at the moment of committing an indiscretion, a concession to the sacredness of personal experience which always seems so much less once it is delivered, they can be persuaded to forego the promise of inviolateness.

    The Woman at Eighteen-Mile 1996

  • The number of the copy was indorsed upon the wrapper, the folds of which were securely fastened at each end with sealing-wax, upon which was impressed, as a guaranty of its inviolateness, the monogram of the club.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • The number of the copy was indorsed upon the wrapper, the folds of which were securely fastened at each end with sealing-wax, upon which was impressed, as a guaranty of its inviolateness, the monogram of the club.

    Baxter's Procrustes Charles Waddell 1904

  • The number of the copy was indorsed upon the wrapper, the folds of which were securely fastened at each end with sealing-wax, upon which was impressed, as a guaranty of its inviolateness, the monogram of the club.

    Baxter's Procrustes 1904

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