[ UK /ɪnvˈa‍ɪ‍ələbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈvaɪəɫəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not capable of being violated or infringed
    infrangible human rights
  2. immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
    a secure telephone connection
    fortifications that made the frontier inviolable
    an impregnable fortress
  3. incapable of being transgressed or dishonored
    an inviolable oath
    the person of the king is inviolable
  4. must be kept sacred
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How To Use inviolable In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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
  • In the camps the barrios have inviolable boundaries; I wouldn't dare walk into black territory without being invited. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • In the camps the barrios have inviolable boundaries; I wouldn't dare walk into black territory without being invited. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
  • But it is common with Mr. Mill and his school to think of law as _necessary inviolable_ sequence; whereas it is but a fixed mode of action whether _necessarily or freely_ determined; and it is a part of law that some activities should be liable to suspension or arrestment by others, and especially by the The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1
  • Yet, withal, he plainly touches at the office of the high-priesthood, with which Augustus was invested, and which made his person more sacred and inviolable than even the tribunitial power. Dedication
  • What a man experiences in the privacy of his psyche must of necessity remain inviolate and inviolable.
  • the person of the king is inviolable
  • The counter-argument is that those who believe this are just taking symbolism to the extreme, and symbols aren't inviolable.
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