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adjective

Inviolated, Inviolate adj.

Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken. "His fortune of arms was still inviolate."

Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure. "Inviolate truth." "There chaste Alceste lives inviolate."

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Etymology of 'Inviolate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inviolate" Quotes from Famous Books

... main road as fast is it was safe for the preservation of our necks—the only thing they wanted to preserve inviolate ...

— The Eureka Stockade • Carboni Raffaello

... proceeding may be wise or just, I know not; certain it is that they have preserved their laws inviolate, their city unattempted, and their republic respectable, through all the concussions that have shaken the rest of Europe. Surrounded by envious powers, it becomes them to be vigilant; conscious of the value of their unconquered state, it is no ...

— Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I • Hester Lynch Piozzi

... an inviting hand, but she offers little else to the Westerner—the student of Nature and of man can alone be happy in the interior. Forgetting time and the life of my own world, I sometimes come to inviolate stillnesses, where Nature opens her arms and bewitchingly promises embraces in soft, unending, undulating vastnesses, where even the watching of a bird building its nest or brooding over its young, or some little groundling at ...

— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle

... Constitution states that "the Emperor is sacred and inviolate." Marquis Ito's comment in explanation of this is peculiarly Japanese. He says, "The Sacred Throne was established at the time when the heavens and earth became separated. The Empire is Heaven-descended, divine and sacred; He is pre-eminent above all His subjects. ...

— The Problem of China • Bertrand Russell

... brain; What ghosts of pale tradition, wreathed with hop 'Gainst wakeful thought, he had to entertain For heavenly visions; and consent to stop The clock at noon, and let the hour remain (Without vain windings-up) inviolate Against all chimings from the belfry. Lo, From every given pope you must abate, Albeit you love him, some things—good, you know— Which every given heretic you hate, Assumes for his, as being plainly so. ...

— The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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