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US
/ˌɪnˈvaɪəɫɪt/
]
[ UK /ɪnvˈaɪəleɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnvˈaɪəleɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- must be kept sacred
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(of a woman) having the hymen unbroken
she was intact, virginal
How To Use inviolate In A Sentence
- What a man experiences in the privacy of his psyche must of necessity remain inviolate and inviolable.
- Journalists and their confidential sources have a special relationship, as inviolate as doctor and patient or priest and penitent.
- We do not sterilise people who have been convicted of violent offences against children because, however gruesome their crime, their person must remain inviolate.
- Gerson to be most true, to wit, that they remain inviolated so long as the law of charity is not by men violated about the same.” The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
- Jews; all other things, which depended upon the eternal and immutable laws and rights of nature, remaining inviolately the same under both covenants, and as unchanged as nature itself. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
- The constitution proclaims that public property shall be inviolate.
- So the Canyon sits in the middle of the sprawling city, inviolate. COLDHEART CANYON
- Their privacy remained inviolate.
- At his humble prayer, the lives of the Romans were spared; and the chastity of the maids and matrons was preserved inviolate from the passions of the hungry soldiers. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Janet was inexorable, and seemed already to have tired of my literary confidence; for whenever I drew near the subject, after evading it as long as she could, she made, under some pretext or other, a bodily retreat to the kitchen or the cockloft, her own peculiar and inviolate domains. The Surgeon's Daughter